Scoil: Drom Mór (B.), Beantraí (uimhir rolla 13095)

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   late, as the people were not able to digest food when they got it as it was too strong for them when they were fasting for a long while before that, but sometimes when they got food they used eat a good meal of it, which may be the cause of their death a short while after.
   There was a man living at the northern side of Dromore Hill during the famine years, he buried three sons within the space of three weeks and he carried their dead bodies a mile to a graveyard in Dromore called the "Cill" on his back, he opened the graves himself, and buried them without coffin or shroud.
   In many cases some poor people were so badly off, they would also have died of starvation, except for the charity of neighbours, who helped them although in circumstances little better than themselves. It was at Aughaville the relief in shape of food was distributed where the present Copithorne family reside.
   Owing to their extreme poverty, the young men and women - who survived - emigrated in large numbers chiefly to the United States. In many instances whole families emigrated especially workmen and their families who could do so and this was chiefly carried out by

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