School: An Gleann Garbh (roll number 2379)

Location:
Glengarriff, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Caoimhín Ó Séaghdha

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An Gleann Garbh | The Schools’ Collection

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0279, Page 164

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The old people say that about the year 1868 or around that time a terrible fever broke out amongst the people of which many of them died. After their deaths a man was sent from the Board to burn the house. One man by the name of John Minihan from Coomhola burned a house in Coomerkane after a man and his wife died. Another house was burned in Magannegan

One day a man was cutting litter on the

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