School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- Blackwater, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)thing he remembers in connection with it is to have heard his father say that 'Bolgers' house in Ballyvaldon then being roofed newly was completely stripped, there being left only the walls.
- Big Wind of 1839:
Aidan Parker of Ballinadrissogue tells me he heard from his father that all the corn of the country got 'mixed' during a Great wind storm in his youth - probably the above. To explain 'mixed' the corn was blown clean off the fields and so the mixing took place.- Informant
- Aidan Parker
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynadrishoge, Co. Wexford