School: Áth na bhFearchan (roll number 5500)
- Location:
- Achadh Farcáin, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: B. Mac Closcaigh
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- The night of the Big Wind happened in the year 1839. The Irish people never knew of such a big storm to occur in Ireland. At that time the farmers had all their crop gathered into the haggards and that night the wind swept the stack of corn and lay all over the countryside. At that time the people had all thatched houses and the wind swept the roofs completely off them. The people who went away on their Ceildhe that night could not get home till the next morning and some of them were blown into the sea. Other people were killed with slates that was blown of the houses, and others were smothered with the wind.
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- Collector
- Peter Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fionncharn, Co. Mhuineacháin