School: Duncormick
- Location:
- Duncormick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: P. S. Ó hEachthigheirn
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- Severe WeatherAbout sixty years ago at Coughlan's of Scurlogue during a heavy snowstorm when getting in sheep a girl named Mary Carty was lost.She went with some men to help get in sheep at night.When the men went home the girl had not arrived but they did not go look for her then.After searching for her for three weeks they found her standing by a ditch dead.The depth of the snow in some places was about twelve feet and in other places covered the doors of the houses.About thirty years ago there was a very heavy thunderstorm.There was a Mission in Rathangan and the Missioner had to go in off the Pulpit
Lightning was flashing in the four points and when it flashed sheep and cattle could be seen in the fields for miles around.Before the storm the sky looked like a sea.Red lights could be seen there also.Chrissie Cleary
Rath.
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- Chrissie Cleary
- Address
- Rath, Co. Wexford
