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Mairéad, Bean Uí Ghionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0815, Page 058

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  1. The Irish Famine of 1847 (continued)

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    wretched robins or by the roadside. Fever followed in the wake of the famine, soon all the Churchyards were filled by the corpses of the victims of this disease.
    As the year advanced the deaths became so numerous that coffins could not be procured for all. Numbers were wrapped in shrouds carried in "trap coffins" to the cemetry and buried. The trap coffin was made like the ordinary coffin with a bottom on hinges closed on one side by an iron clasp. The corpse was put into this and lowered into the grave. The clasp was
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Leonard
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Galros, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mr James Leonard
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Galros, Co. Offaly