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1. An Incident of the Famine Days

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   I have heard the following piece of folklore from my aunt Miss Lizzie O Donohue with whom I reside at Abbey House, Boyle.
   During the famine times in Ireland there lived a wealthy colonel in Abbey View House. There was a huge plum orchard growing in front of the house with a high wall surrounding it. As it was during the famine times a heavy guard was placed around it.
   At this period all the people were starving with hunger and often hundreds of them used attack the orchard but the guards always managed to keep them off. There lived a poor man in the district who had five or six children and he was not able to support them. So he decided to steal some of the colonels plums.
   So he set out one dark night and on reaching the orchard he climbed the wall. He was about to grab the plums when a shot rang out and the man fell dead. But before he fell the man dug his fingers into the wall. Those blood-stained fingerprints

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   Dermott Kilgallen

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   Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin

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   Miss Lizzie O' Donohue

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