School: Ardaghy, Omeath
- Location:
- Ardaghy, Co. Louth
- Teacher: B. Mac Craith
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0658, Page 080
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- The "Big Wind"The "Big Wind" occurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine. Then, my grandfather, Hughie Quinn who lived in the townland of Cornamuckla with his parents, six brothers, and sister, was only a boy. He lived to be over a hundred years of age, and often told how his mother collected himself and the rest of the family, and placed them under the brace of the fireplace for safety.
All the corn-stacks in the haggard were blown down, and scattered over the adjoining fields. On the day after the "Big Wind" my grandfather and his brothers gathered from the bushes in the fields, what remained of the corn.Collected by:
Mary Connolly (13 yrs.)
Lislea,
Omeath,
Co. Louth
From:
Mrs. A Connolly (45 yrs.)
Same Address
30-11-37
- Collector
- Mary Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs A. Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Louth
