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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- (continued from previous page)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.
- 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) - Collector
- Mollie Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Murrens, Co. Meath
