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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 494

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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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    Well they carried her dead body (no coffins at that time, [?]) the stonebreakers (who worked at 4d a day) carried her dead body from heap of stones to the next heap of stones, until the last stone-breakers brought her to Aesalyn. I heard thousands of sad tales like that from my mother and father - they both lived through the famine - but I forget them nearly all now.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Gorman
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Leitrim