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1. Big Wind - Local Account

   

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   Shortly before 1839, the people of Shercock determined to build a chapel in their own town. Before that they had to come out to the old church at Killawn for mass, and when they got there they had to kneel outside as the place could not accomadate all.
   The chapel was built and the roof on when on 6th January 1839 the "Big Wind" came and swept the roof from it. Many people believed that God was against them, and the chapel was left for some time, but was afterwards completed.

   

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2. Big Wind - Local Account

   

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   An old man named Pat Farrelly, William St. Bailieboro who died about ten years aged ninety two, remembered the night of the "Big Wind". He was a very small child then, but he remembered being taken out of the house wrapped in a shawl, and spending the night under a hedge with the rest of his family.

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   1. seánra
      1. seanchas aimsire (~6,442)
   2. próisis agus feiniméin
      1. gaotha (~357)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mrs Kelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coill an Chollaigh, Co. an Chabháin

   Informant

   Miss B. Farrelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coill an Chollaigh, Co. an Chabháin