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School: Cor na Fola (C.) (roll number 3604)

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Cornafulla, Co. Roscommon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271, Page 091

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    two shillings and said, now help yourself to get a few things for the children.
    During these two terrible years thousands of people of starvation and they had to eat anything that they could get, raw turnips, weeds and sea weed.
    The people of England and America subscribed large sums of money for the people and so they so they saved many lives and the Irish people were very grateful for this.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Minie Kerley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cornafulla, Co. Roscommon