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Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
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Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 168

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    In a little tumble down house just at Curnacartha lake, in the County Mac Shea?. He was greatly disfigured, and his head was nearly touching his knees, with a hump which was on his back. When he died he was a week dead in the house before any neighbours knew of it.
    When they went to lay him out he was so crippled that they had to put him on a table. They tied a rope around his chest to the bottom rails of the table, and another
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tom Mc Manus
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynadooey, Co. Roscommon