Abstract: Story collected by Michael Mac Morrow, a student at Muine Mór school (Meenymore, Co. Leitrim) (no informant identified).
Original reference: 0196/3/2
School Muine Mór [Vol. 0196, Chapter 0003]
County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Leitrim Schools
transcribed at 
The Big Wind [duchas:4600484]
It started on the 6th on January 1839 and it settled on the ninth. It caused a great deal of destruction throughout the country. The following is some of the harm it did. It dug the trees from the root. It tossed houses and blew away hay and oats. Any place there were houses the people gathered in numbers to get shelter and there is one barn standing yet belonging to a man named John Laughlin and he told me that his father often saw a hundred people there during the three day of the wind. This barn was roofed in 1838 and it was re-roofed this year. Great numbers
The Big Wind [duchas:4600485]
Of cattle were killed and driven into holes. The sheep were driven out the mountains. The salt water was blown in from Sligo(?) up as far as the Leaca mountains in North Leitrim. By Michael Mac Morrow.
Original reference: 0196/3/2
The Big Wind
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