School: St Oran's, Buncrana

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   There was a plage in our district in the year 1822. There was a hole lot of people died with it there was eight or nine coffins every day waiting to be buried and the people couldnt get a enough of coffins to buire them and the had to put them in boxes and buire them. There was a house burning one time in our district long ago. There was a man going to bed and he was lighting his pipe and when he had his pipe lit he was throwing the match out and he threw it on a bag of straw and the bag got on fire and in a while the whole house was in fire and the man found the smell of the smoke and he jumped up and got a blanket and put it round him and ran through the flames and got out to the street and the house was burned to the ground.

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   Topics

   1. ócáidí
      1. cruatan (~1,565)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Johney Gill

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   82

   Address

   Muine Ghuaire, Co. Dhún na nGall

2. Local Happenings

   

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   There was a plage one time long ago. There was a whole lot of people sick at the one time. It lasted for a year and there was a terrible lot of people died and the people could not get enough of graves for them and they

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