School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)

Location:: Errew, Co. Mayo
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hung people.
There was a boy once who would not obey his mother. She brought him to Tioboid to control him and Tioboid hanged him.

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The Famine

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The years of the famine were 1846 and 1847. The potato crop failed and the people had no other food and they died in thousands There was plenty of cattle and sheep in the country but they were shipped to England. Thousands died by the roadside
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Language

English

Collector
Nora O' Grady
Gender

Female