School: Abbeylara
- Location:
- Abbeylara, Co. Longford
- Teacher: John O' Meara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 0664
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - About a hundred years ago on the 6th of January in the year 1839 there was a great wind. This wind was called "The Big Wind". A lot of houses were knocked and roofs were stripped of slates and thatch. A lot of crops were destroyed. Part of the village of Kilgola was burned on that night. Some of the blazing timber was blown across Lake Sheelin to the other side and part of another village in the Co. Cavan called Mountnugent was burned. The people knew that there was going to be a storm, because the seagulls gathered on the land.On the 20th of February in the year 1900 there was a big storm of wind and rain. A lot of damage was done to houses and stacks of hay(continues on next page)
