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School: Dungimmon

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Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0995, Page 088

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    In the famine times there was an old hospital named Turen between Mt. Nugent and Kilnaleck for curing the people. When they would die they would carried away in a cart and trown into a hole and they not fully dead.
    The potatoes failed and they rotted in the ground.
    There were a lot of people in Dungimmon before the famine, and a town was there. The roads were lined with houses. There were ten or twelve in Nicholas Sheridan's field
    The names of some of them who lived in in Nicholas Sheridan's field were Mr Gilsin and Mr Garry.
    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
    Patrick Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Charles Murray
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Kilbride, Co. Cavan