School: Tamhnach tSeiscinn (roll number 12778)

Location:
Tawnytaskin, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Aibhistín Ó Tárpaigh
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  2. In a house in Corrigeenroe a brother and sister lived together. They boy died as result of the black fever and his sister carried his coffinless body from Corrigeenroe to Kilmactranny graveyard on her back a distance of a (distan) five miles. There was a police barracks beside the graveyard and she went into it and made the police bury her brother for her.
    This girls name was Winne Bannon and she lived at the back of Thomas Lyon's house at Corrigeenroe.
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