out of the canal at Tuam.
It knocked a pinnacle off Carlow Cathedral and a tower off Carlow Castle.
It stripped the earth alongside the River Boyne, exposing the bones of soldiers killed in the famous battle 150 years earlier
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Today in 1839 the Night of the Big Wind, “Oíche na Gaoithe Móire”, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin, 4,846 chimneys fell, and waves topped the Cliffs of Moher, The wind blew all the water
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@thepainterflynn
This might be of interest to
@GerMilHistory
as the exposure of bones in that time period could have presented an economic opportunity.
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@thepainterflynn
Now I have to find out where the canal in tuam was, because I never heard of it
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