School: Easgéiphtine (B.) (roll number 2039)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 212
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- About twenty years ago there was a terrible frost. It lasted seven weeks. No body could travel on the roads with horses.
It was freezing for a night and a day. The ground was very hard and the sea on the water was also very hard the animals could not get a drink of water. The people had to break the sea for them to get water. It was never know before or the likes was never seen.
- In February 2nd 1902 there was a great storm. It started about nine o'clock the night before. It blew so hard the people stayed up all night as the houses were shaking with the force of the wind. Next morning nearly every house was stripped of some slates and thatched houses were even more damaged.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stewick House, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John O' Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Stewick House, Co. Limerick
