School: Ashfort (B.), Ráthluirc
- Location:
- Ashford, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 273
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- In the year eighteen eighty eight a terrible snow storm raged through the country. It lasted one week from the fourth of January to the eleventh. Some days before the storm the people noticed a great reddening on the east side of the sky, but they took no notice of it. On one morning as the people arose they saw the ground covered with a mantle of snow. While it remained the people could scarcely feed the cattle. The schools were shut. The storm did a great deal of harm, it swept roofing off of a dwelling house in Glenquin, and some sheep which were grazing on a hill side were buried under it. About twenty two years ago a great thunder storm raged. A man named Dunlevy was killed by lightning. In a house in Drumrue a dog lying by the fire was struck by a flash and burnt to death.
- Collector
- Bríghid Ní Airtnéada
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Harnett
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenquin, Co. Limerick
