School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 13210)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Lotrail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0563, Page 242
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- XML “Oíche na Gaoithe Móire - Night of the Big Wind 6-7 January 1839”
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- (continued from previous page)the neighbours collected, ploughed the field and sowed it with crops.
- There is not much account of the night of the Big Wind locally as all people who could have remembered it are dead. However, from a woman who lives near me I gather that the storm effected the district extensively. Her father remembered it well as he was then only a lad of seventeen. He said people were so terrified that they remained at the fire all night praying, but nobody could be heard speaking owing to the height of the gale. Hundreds of trees were blown down and those that were not were stripped of their branches. This man's name was John Walsh, Ballyintaggart Hill, Callan.My grandfather, John Luttrell, Gortnacologue(?) ,Kilmanagh, Callan was then a boy of 8 years being born 7/7/1830
- Marriages take place most frequently during Shrove and before Advent all marriages take place on Wednesday, as it was considered the luckiest day.(continues on next page)
