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School: Cill Chóirne (C.) (roll number 8829)

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Cill Coirne, Co. Chorcaí
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Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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    Indian meal from Millstreet. He was paid for boiling the meal and sharing it out. A ticket had to be got and signed by the Protestant Minister in Macroom and the Canon of Kanturk. The person should then take the ticket to Tigh na Leiteann where he would get the amount of gruel allowed on it.
    The men of the district were given relief work making road at 4d or 5d a day.
    A man called a Crier used go around the district with acar calling out "any dead"? The corpses were thrown into the car without any coffin and buried
    in Old Kilcorney Graveyard
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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