It hit Ireland’s west coast with such power that the waves actually broke over the top of the Cliffs of Moher. The hurricane had roared across 3,000 miles of unbroken, island-free Atlantic Ocean, gathering momentum every second. Sailing upon the Irish Sea, Captain Smyth of the Pennsylvania studied his instruments and tried to make sense of the fluctuating pressures.īy 10pm, Ireland was in the throes of a ferocious cyclone that would continue unabated until 6am.
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In the Wicklow Mountains, a team of geographic surveyors headed up by John O’Donovan, finally made it to their hotel in Glendalough they had been walking all day, often knee-deep in snow. Fishermen turned their ears west a distant, increasingly loud rumble could be heard upon the frothy horizon.Īt Glenosheen in Co Cork, a well-to-do German farmer called Jacob Stuffle began to cry.Īt Moydrum Castle in Co Westmeath, 78-year-old Lord Castlemaine decided to turn in early and go to bed. Church bells chimed and dogs began to whine. In the towns and villages, fires flickered and doors slammed. Farmers grimaced as their hay-ricks and thatched roofs took a pounding. Nobody could possibly have predicted that those first soft raindrops signified an advance assault from the most terrifying hurricane in human memory.īy 6pm, the winds had become strong and the raindrops were heavier, sleet-like, with occasional bursts of hail. By contrast, Sunday morning was unusually warm, almost clammy, and yet the air was so still that, along the west coast, voices could be heard floating on the air between houses more than a mile apartĪt approximately 3pm, the rain began to fall and the wind picked up.
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The previous day had seen the first snowfall of the year heavy enough for some to build snowmen. Most of the eight million people living in Ireland at the time were preparing themselves for Little Christmas, the Feast of the Epiphany. The calm before the Big Wind struck was particularly eerie.
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Known as Gaeilge as “Oíche na Gaoithe Móire”, the hurricane of 6th and 7th January 1839 made more people homeless in a single night than all the sorry decades of eviction that followed it. The Night of the Big Wind was the most devastating storm ever recorded in Irish history.