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School: Cill Mháille (C.), Inis (roll number 14469)

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Kilmaley, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Nóra Ní Asaoid
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    Burke the lightning came down the chimney and went out through the end of the house.A girl of the family was bringing in a tin-can of water when the lightning struck the tincan in her hand and bent it, but luckily nobody was injured.
    About eighteen years ago a great shower or what it seemed to be a cloudburst fell in the townlands of Kilclogher and Cahermore it lasted about an hour causing great damage to various crops in the locality.
    A great drought which lasted over three months set in about fifty years ago.People suffered a great deal for want of water ,very few wells but dried up,and cattle had to be driven miles to drink water .The information was give to me by my father.
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