School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)

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   house and anyone that wants to see the tomb can go to them and ask them for the key. The coffin is as good to- day as the day is was buried.

   Written by Mollie McCabe Murrens Oldcastle Co Meath.
   told by my father.

   

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2. Severe Weather

   

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   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

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mollie Mc Cabe

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Murrens, Co. Meath