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School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)

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An Chorr Mhín, Co. na Mí
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Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 297

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    The great famine was in the year 1849 - 47. It was called the black forty-six, and black forty-seven. The people had no food to eat, and all they could eat was oaten meal porridge. The people were very weak in that time and hundreds of them died with the hunger.
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