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School: Corvoy

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Corvoy, Co. Monaghan
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Ss. Ó Dubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 008

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 008

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  1. Religious Story (continued)

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    he was passing he asked leave to kiss the statue. The statue caught him in her arms and all the power of his guards would not liberate him from it. He had to be pardoned and he was released.
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  2. The Famine

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    In the year of the famine 1846 and 1847 there were relief works given to the people. Their wages was sixpence a day. If they were working in quarries and they took a crow bar they would get eightpence a day.
    There was a big cutting on the Dunraymond road at Dunraymond post office. There a great number of men employed. They had to cut through a big hill and wheel the stuff with barrows and put it in a hollow.
    There were men travelled a long
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