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School: Drom Mór (C.), Malla (roll number 13780)

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Dromore, Co. Cork
Teacher:
M. Uí Uallaighe
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  1. Composition - The Thunderstorm

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    We had a thunderstorm about a week ago, and it did great harm, The thunder started at about three oclock in the evening and the thunder and lightning kept on till about twelve oclock that night. There were a number of cows horses and pigs killed by the lightning. There were three pigs killed in Ballymagooley.
    A man was holding a bill-hook in his hand and the steel of the bill-hook drew the lightning, which broke the handle, but the man escaped. In Waterford the lightning smashed the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. thunder and lightning (~109)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora O' Hanlon
    Gender
    Female