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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Droichead na Banndan (roll number 5257)

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Bandon, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. Pádraig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 150

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    your cold marshy land is no margin".
    Sometimes during the famine days when Jones would enter Clonakilty town he would always ask "how many dead to-day"? The more that died the more he was pleased. There is a story told how a ship was rounding the south of Sicily. The people of Sicily heard the crew saying that the devils were putting down more coal, Jones was coming to the next world. In those days when entering Bandon about the month of July there was a notice hanging up "Welcome here for Protestants and Pagans but not papists" Well said
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Joan O' Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Skeaf, Co. Cork
    Informant
    John O' Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    88
    Address
    Skeaf, Co. Cork