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School: Robertson (roll number 13372)

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Ballintra, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Somhairle Mac Ádhaimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 139

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    About sixty years ago, there was a flood in this district and there was a great many crops destroyed and there were many sheep lost. The water went into a house at Laghey bridge and it tossed it. But the people that were in the house escaped in time to save their lives. In the year 1922 there was a great thunder-storm. There was a woman killed with lightening and one of her cows were killed the same night. The same evening there was a man who lived in Ballinakillew getting hay at the hay-stack and he saw a ball of fire coming towards him, he thought it was was going to hit him, but it passed without doing him any harm and it struck a oak tree that was near him and it split it to
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ella Scott
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal