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School: Tamhnach tSeiscinn (roll number 12778)

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Tawnytaskin, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Aibhistín Ó Tárpaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 152

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  1. The Famine Days (continued)

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    that evening there was a cry in the graveyard and everyone was afraid to go near his grave. Ever since that his ghost is to be seen around the graveyard.
    The name of this man was Kavanagh.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. A Corrigeenroe Heroine

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    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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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Mc Dermott
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doon, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mary Nangle (nee)
    Other names
    Mary Nangle (nee) (local name)
    Mrs Mary Mc Dermott
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    77
    Address
    Doon, Co. Roscommon