School: Errigal Trough (roll number 15565)
- Location:
- Scairbh na gCaorach, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Saragh Gillanders
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 353
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- The people of this locality experienced a terrific storm of wind in the year 1839. Great damage was done, as many people had hay destroyed. A man called James McCarron who resides in the townland of Mullanacask, had a peck of hay blown away, (50 tons).
About 80 years ago, there was a storm of frost and snow which lasted for six weeks; snow kept falling continually for a fortnight. Many cattle and sheep were lost.
A man called Patrick McKenna of Derlebeg went out to search for a calf and was buried in a drift of snow. A number of men went out to search for him, and found him in a very exhausted condition, but after much care and attention he survived and outlived many other people in the district.
A terrific thunderstorm was experienced in this locality about 40 years ago, and lasted over three hours. On that same night a man called Montgomery was hanged, and many said that was the cause of the storm.
- Collector
- Annie Hall
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mulligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ard Circe, Co. Mhuineacháin
