School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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- In 1837 there was a great storm it was called the big wind. It tore down houses and a lot of trees fell. In February 1893 there was a great snow fall. The snow was about five feet height.About 60 years ago there was a great drought. It burned all the crops and the grass. Michael O Grady a neighbour tells that no rain fell from St Patricks day to June 12th. In a garden of about four acres he had only six stalks of corn. The storm of 1839 stripped a hay barn in Clare and brought its cover across the Shannon and landed it in Askeaton.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Fráthaile
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick