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Abstract: Story collected by Nora Cunningham, a student at Eaglais school (Burren, Co. Mayo) from informant Martin Cunningham.

Original reference: 0089/2/110

Mongaigh, Seosamh Ó [Teacher]

Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht [Funder]

University College Dublin [Funder]

National Folklore Foundation [Funder]
Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann [Funder]

Loading... School Eaglais [Vol. 0089, Chapter 0002]

County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Mayo Schools

COLLECTOR: Cunningham, Nora
Gender: female

INFORMANT: Cunningham, Martin
Gender: male
Age: 54
Location: Commauns (Townland)
Turlough (Civil parish)
Carra (Barony)
Mayo (County)

Story text TEI

transcribed at

The Night of the Big Wind [duchas:4345809]

There was a big wind one night nearly 100 years ago. It took a roof off a house and a granary in Commauns my village. In the middle of the night the husband awoke. He heard a great noise and he went out and he saw the roof was gone off the granary and and the roof was gone of the house. He came in and told his wife. They got up quickly and went around the village and gathered all the men. The men came and went out to Crimlen and they found the roofs left on the side of the road at Tobar Geal. The brought it in on their backs and that day they fixed it up again.

Resource description

Origin information: Burren, Co. Mayo
Date created: [1937] – [1938]
Type of Resource: text
Physical description: p. 291
Volume 0089
Note: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Ó Mongaigh.
Languages: English eng
Genre: Folktale
Subject: Winds--Folklore; Winds--Gaotha
School location: Burren Boirinn Burren Burren Aglish Carra Mayo
Location: https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4505114
Location: University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .
Original reference: 0089/2/110
Suggested credit: "The Night of the Big Wind"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4505114>
Note: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Ó Mongaigh.
Funding: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source: Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.