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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile

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Kinsale, Co. Cork
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 345

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    There were plenty houses vacant in Kinsale at that time. In most cases the owners seeing no chance of getting tenants did not bother their heads about the "rookeries." But there was one thing the famishing people were strictly forbidden to do. That was to steal as much food as would keep body and soul together. This was a most serious crime in the eyes of well-fed magistrates. Not many years ago there died a decent poor woman who was sent to jail for three weeks. And here
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brighidh Breathnach
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Séamus Breathnach
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male