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School: Kilkenny Convent (roll number 13885)

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Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
An tSr. Borgin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0855, Page 429

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  1. The Famine (continued)

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    shopkeepers lost their customers and the working girls were turned adrift by their employers
    unable any longer to maintain them
    The principle Dates
    Beginnig of the famine 1645
    Relief work started 1646
    State Schemm of food 1647
    End of Famine 1648
    Told by William Murphy
    Bennetts Bridge
    Co. Kilkenny
    written by
    Eileen Murphy
    Bennetts Bridge
    Co. Kilkenny
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Eileen Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny