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School: Howth (C.)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 30

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  2. A Plague

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    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. plagues and epidemics (~104)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr J. Redmond
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Howth, Co. Dublin

  3. A Plague

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    A plague.
    About 276 years ago a great epidemic of cholera broke out in the town of Howth. Some of the older inhabitants say that they buried the people before the life was out of them, they were not exactly dead, but if they had been let live they would have only spread the disease more and the whole town would have been destroyed, and in fact it was nearly destroyed.
    Old people heard from their ancestors that
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