School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 054
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- (continued from previous page)one another. There were a lot of trees in the country and it knocked a lot of them.
- There was a severe thunderstorm in the year 1870. It was in the month of January it was about the 12th. The thunder did not do any harm but the dreadful noise of it frightened the people. The lightning killed three very valuable cows and a horse on a farmer named Con Curtin of Reens house Ardagh Co Limerick. The lightning also struck a grove of fancy shrubs and burned them to the ground and also a great many trees and a large oak tree. There was very strong wind and it rained very heavy. The sky was very black the day before the(continues on next page)
