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School: Tigneatha

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Tynagh, Co. Galway
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Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0077

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0077

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  1. The Old Graveyards (continued)

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  2. Famine Times

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    Old people say that people died on the road sides and everywhere during the famine. It was fever caused by hunger. Most of them had no coffins. Before this the country was very thickly populated. In our fields there are many ruins and places that mark out houses that were occupied by people before the famine. Even yet are seen the ridges that were made to sow the potatoes in but the people died before that could sow them. The potatoes rotted in the pits. This is the first time blight came
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