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School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)

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Ballina, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 541

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    surrounding districts. Men were then engaged with carts to bury the dead, and old man told about fifty years ago that he had often eight coffins on his cart. A lot of the dead were buried in fields about Ballina outside the burying ground. The cholera never touched the town of Crossmolina and Crossmolina is up to this day known as a holy land.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jack Mc Hale
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Farmer
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmoremoy, Co. Mayo