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1. Local History - The Cholera

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   In the year 1846 the year of the black famine the potato crop and the swede crop and turnip crop failed in this country and the oats crop was a failure. In some parts the population of the country were in a state of starvation. The following year the cholera or black fever brok out and people were dying suddenly in hundreds. A priest who lived in Ardnaree on a fine Sunday evening was speaking to a lot of the neighbours and they seen a large dark cloud coming across from where the railway station is now built. The cloud or dark lump was only about sixty feet from the ground. The priest said cholera had come and told them to get in at once. The following morning twenty people were dead in Ardnaree. For months after people were falling dead on the street of Ardnaree and Ballina and

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Jack Mc Hale

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   Fireann

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Farmer

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Cill Mhór Mhuaidhe, Co. Mhaigh Eo