School: Multyfarnham (roll number 2405)
- Location:
- Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tiomáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 259
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- "Storms"
On the 6th of January 1839, one of the worst storms ever experienced raged all over the country, and was particularly severe in this county, houses were uproofed, whole plantations were uprooted and houses by the score burned to the ground. On this particulor night two seabirds-Mother Carey's Chickens were blown in from somewhere off the coast and were the following morning in a local gentleman's demesne. Another storm almost equal in severity broke over Ireland on 23rd February 1905, plantations were levelled, farm buildings destroyed, but the amount of damage done was much less than that done by the storm 1839. About the year 1895 a very severe winter and spring was experienced. there was a continuous frost and snow for three months. Even rivers where there was a heavy current were frozen so much that it was possible for people to walk across them. Most of the seabirds perished from want of food and water
- Collector
- Mary Leavey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyharney, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mary Leavey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballyharney, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Leavey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballyharney, Co. Westmeath
