Scoil: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Suíomh:
- Biorra, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Múinteoir: Sr. Flannan
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0821, Leathanach 186
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- Local Happenings.In the year 1881 Birr was visited by a great plaque. It was known as the cholera.Two brothers named Smith came to reside in High St, Birr. They started a drapery business. A woman named Mrs. Bergin from Killyon about 4 miles from Birr purchased blankets in their shop and brought them to her home. Immediately the epidemic began to spread in the district beginning in her home, then in Birr. The two brothers themselves were the first to die, they only lived two or three days in the town. (It was said that the germ of the disease was in the blankets and other stuffs which they brought to this shop). Some say that these two brothers were buried in "Bully's Acre" (See "Old Graveyards") before they were dead at all.The epidemic spread rapidly and people died in great numbers, and as in the days of the Famine, a big hole was dug in this old cemetery and the(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
- Faisnéiseoir
- Mrs Dooley
- Inscne
- Baineann
- Aois
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- Seoladh
- Críonchoill, Co. Uíbh Fhailí