Scoil: St Patrick's, Aughnacliffe (uimhir rolla 13283)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal)

   “Here is a story about the great wind of 1839.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Here is a story about the great wind of 1839. During the Summer of the year 1838 this man whose name was Connroy spent his time renovating his house to try to have it as comfortable as possible. He put on four windows on the house.
   One of them he put on the end facing the South-West. The reason he put this window there was to have the sun shining in, as it would be setting. His wife wanted him to not to put this there on the end of the house. In January of the year 1839 there was a great storm of wind and rain. About twelve o'clock the gable window was blown in, and the wind began to shake the roof off it and at last it blew the thatch off. This room was where the man of the house was sleeping. The wind got in under the bed and blew it up to the roof and and left Jhonny on the rafters where the wind had blew the thatch off. This happened about three o'clock

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Jim Kiernan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   13

   Faisnéiseoir

   James Kiernan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   60

   Seoladh

   Achadh na Cloiche, Co. an Longfoirt