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School: Moyrhee, Ruan

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Moyree Commons, Co. Clare
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Laoise de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0613, Page 288

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    district was thickly populated that time they all died of the famine and there were a lot of them buried in "the Coill." There was a woman working for a farmer and she ate turnips and salt that time because they were the only thing that would grow. The people had no wheat that time because it would not grow for many of them, and they who had it had "to sell it to pay the rent.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Gerard Leyden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowkeel Beg, Co. Clare