School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- One day in February 1903 there was a terrible wind-storm.
It lasted about eight hours. It started at eight in the evening and lasted till four in the morning.
It caused great damage to all kinds of houses and woods. It caused great damage also to one galvanised house and took it three fields away. It took the thatch off a certain house in the village of Donard and left nothing but the walls and a piece of timber.
It up-rooted a number(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tony Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Ellen Evans
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow