School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)
- Location:
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 376
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Severe Weather The following story happened 24 years ago. In the year 1910 the 6th day of June a big thunder-storm broke out. There was a family living in Baltrasna named Flannigan's. There was a bid ash tree growing at the gable of their house.
On the night Edward Flannagan Mrs Flannigan and Mary Barrett were sitting round the fire when a big flash of lightning struct the ask tree, it travelled to the roots of it and went in under the hearth-stone as the roots of the ash tree had spread under the house and the heat of the fire threw the lightning(continues on next page)
