DONEGAL.—A Severe Thunderstorm.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 26 February 1903, Page 9

DONEGAL.— A Severe Thunderstorm.

During a thunderstorm which passed over County Donegal the parochial house of D,rumkeen, in a remote part of the county, was destroyed by a thunderbolt. The house, which was intended for the curate, Rev. John M'Ateer, was ready for occupation except for a few details The effect of the lightning was disastrous. The building was practically wrecked, the walls being tumbled, and the staircase demolished. The current also pulled the spouting from the church near. Intelligence was received by the constabulary at Letterkenny that a man named Patrick M'Clafferty, a farmer, resident at Derryhassen, in the neighborhood of Carrigart, had been struck dead by lightning. The deceased, it appears, was about 40 years of age.