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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 493

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    “Beyond in Doon - near the lough - there was a poor beggerwoman - she took the fever...”

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    “The "line" and the other new road at the back of our house in Doon Boyle were blocked out for relief work in famine times.”

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    The "line" and the other new road at the back of our house in Doon Boyle were blocked out for relief work in famine times.
    There was a poor woman with a baby working, breaking the stones. Well she died of the fever, or the hunger, sitting at work on the heap, and when she was found the baby was drinking at her breast - the breast of the dead starved woman.
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