Scoil: Ceis (uimhir rolla 15342)

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1. Epidemics

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   My grandfather told the following story to my father who in turn told it to me. "In the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in the month of April, there was a dreadful outbreak of Cholera in Ireland. It did not break out in Sligo until the eighteenth of August of the same year. The account given shortly after its outbreak was; twenty-two, (deathes) deaths, no recovery. On an average fifty persons a day died but often as many as a hundred died in a particular day. Twenty carpenters were busily employed making coffins in the courthouse, at that time converted into a workshop. The twenty carpenters soon growing unable to supply the demand for coffins, most of the dead were rolled into pitched

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   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. ócáidí
      1. cruatan (~1,565)
         1. plánna agus galair (~104)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Brigid A. Tighe

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Baile an Mhóta, Co. Shligigh