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School: Cill Fhíonáin (B.) (roll number 15992)

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Kilfinane, Co. Limerick
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Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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    as they could they would die.
    Mrs. Leahy, the woman that was put into jail was evicted out of two houses because she could not pay her huge rents.
    Many people died and some of them were thin from hunger that when they were being put into a kind of coffin some part of their bodies would break.
    The way the people used to eat the Holy Alls was:- They would boil them first and then eat them with a pinch of salt. The ladies from Castle Oliver used to distribute the stirabout.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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