School: Corra Cluana (roll number 14054)
- Location:
- Currach Chluana, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 356
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- Informant
- John Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Coillte Clochair, Co. Liatroma
- On the 6th of January, 1839 the "Big Wind" visited this district just as it did the rest of the country. It filled ricks of hay from ground and deposited them intact half-a-mile away. My grandfather had just built a new two-storeyed house with a thatched roof. The wind filled the roof completley off the house and swept it down to Lugmore. My grandmother was in the house with no company but a young child. She stood in the room door all night, as there was no other safe place. A storey was removed from the house by my grandfather for safety.
