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School: Liathdruim (roll number 1125)

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Leitrim, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Francis Meehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 487

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    6th June 1849.
    Number in Workhouse - . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 1,123
    .. .. Temporary Sheds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
    .. .. Fever .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
    .. .. Jamestown Auxiliary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
    .. .. Carrick Auxiliary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
    .. .. .. School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
    12th February 1848.
    "visited Kilmore Electoral Division. Found a fearful amount of suffering from want of shelter, and from fever among adults, and dysentry among children. The sufferers were all in receipt of outdoor relief. They were in the ditches, with a few sticks and a little straw thrown over them. In one of these abodes of misery, we found the mother dead, with five children around her. She had been dead some time, and no doubt would have remained unburied, but that Captain Routh and I gave money to procure a coffin. She had died of fever. The state of affairs in this townland was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Easdley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullylannan, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Mary Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leitrim, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Muriel Benison
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreen, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Charles Taylor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86
    Address
    Leitrim, Co. Leitrim