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School: Corr Riabhach

Location:
Correagh Glebe, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
R. Mac Éamuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 039

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 039

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    A great famine spread over Ireland in the year 1846-47. At this time there was a terrible want for food, as the blight came on the potato-es, and this left the people without any food except oaten and indian porrige.
    Some people were wiped out completely so that there houses are in ruins now. There is the ruins of an old house in the corner of a field in
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