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School: Sráid na Cille, Cathair Dhún Iascaigh (roll number 15184)

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Caher, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Déoirín Ní Ragháil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0570, Page 041

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    About eighty years ago there were three children gathering cockles when a thunder storm broke.
    There were men working in a field cutting corn. The children started to run leaving their shoes behind them. When they were passing the field where the men were working a flash of lightening struck one of the men's sickle and made its shape on his chest and he fell dead. Then the children ran for their lives. Over a hundred years ago there was a great thunder storm people were going into a church when a flash of lightening struck the spire and
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ken Livingstone
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Caher, Co. Tipperary