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School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)

Location:
Loughrea, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr Adrian
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0298

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  1. Famine Times (continued)

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    The present town is only a skeleton of the old town of Loughrea, for there were many streets which are not there any longer. Two streets were from the Main Street to meet the "Wallds" and at that time the Carmelite Nuns lived where Long's drapery show now is.
    In a town not far from this there is a graveyard with a depression running across it. In the famine times the people were dying so frequently and in such numbers that there was no time to dig seperate graves.
    This trench was dug, and all the dead bodies were thrown into it and then they were
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Michael Fahy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cuscarrick, Co. Galway