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School: Achadh na Sealbhaighe (roll number 15344)

Location:
Aghnashalvy, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
T. Maguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0952, Page 005

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    Patrick Maguire was born in the townland of Dernacloy in October 1837 in the Parish of Clones, in the county of Fermanagh and was therefore about 10 years of age in 1847 and remembered quite distinctly the condition of this locality during this distressing period and I often heard him relate his experiences of this time.
    It happened on one occasion when the men of the district were engaged on the making of a road (which is still not completed and which to my own
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Maguire
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derryartry, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Patrick Maguire
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynacloy, Co. Fermanagh