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1. Famine Times (continued)

   

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   bones and skulls were dug up, but no remains of coffins were to be seen.
   There is a story told of a man who was working some distance from his home. He started off early in the morning and his wife was to bring him his dinner. When she did not arrive at the usual time he started off to meet her. On the way he met the dead cart and stopped to ask the man who he had got to-day. He replied that the last corpse was that of his wife whom he had found lying on the road. Her husband got angry and said it could not possibly be his wife as she had been quite well when he left home and was to come with his dinner. He insisted on examining the bodies and sure enough that of his wife was among them.
   He refused to allow her to be brought to the grave-yard and prevailed on the man to turn the cart and bring her home again. She lay in a semiconscious state for three or four days. Gradually she came back to life again, but her mind was never quite normal. She always wore her hair

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ethel Gillanders

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Joe Gillanders

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballymacforban, Co. Monaghan