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1. Relief Works of 47

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   A mid the horrors of black 47 when the people lay dead in hundreds in the high ways and in the fields, O'Connell touched to the heart for his starving people went to London to plead before Parliment for some relief to tied them over that terrible time. He suceded in persuading the goverment to grant 10 million pounds to be used in various kinds of relief works. The numerous grass grown unfinished roads throughout the country will give some idea of how the money was expended. The road from Dalys cross through the bog and Cloon Keen to connect with the Abbert road at Kavanagh bridge was lined out and partly made out of these relief funds. There were some fifty woman as well as men working there. Each woman was forced to carry a large basket something like the baskets used on asses into which three or four spits of turf were thrown by a man on the bank and then carried to fill up hollows where turf was cut some time before.

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Margaret Mulry

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thomas Devaney

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   60

   Seoladh

   Derreen, Co. Galway