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School: Twomilehouse (roll number 2284)

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Twomilehouse, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Tomás Bineidh
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  1. The Famine (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    and they went all rotten.
    The road from Dillons cross to the Curragh was only a boreen. Then after a while the men used to get sixpence a day for making the Two-Mile-House road and when they came to Brophy's of Herbertstown to take away a hill they found a corpse and they left (it) the corpse back and passed on.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tim Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corbally, Co. Kildare