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School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

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Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 072

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    Some years ago my father and another man, named Johnny Murphy, were fencing a ditch near our house. About four o'clock it began to rain. Then thunder and lightning came. My daddy came home, but Johnny Murphy got under a tree.
    After some time the rain became too heavy, he went to go home, and he was only about ten yards from the tree, when the lightning struck the top of the tree and split it from the top to the bottom.
    When the rain stopped and my daddy went back
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Flynn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Brusselstown, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Thomas Flynn
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 68
    Address
    Brusselstown, Co. Wicklow