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School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)

Location:
Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 266

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  2. Local Happenings - Plagues

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    Long long ago there was a great plague of sickness in this district, parish of Kilcommon, Co. Tipperary. It was about one hundred years ago. It was said it was from the cold weather. About one hundred people died that time. The people were not buried in graveyards at all , they used only dig a hole in the earth and throw dead bodies into the hole.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. plagues and epidemics (~104)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Berkery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Foildarragh, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Berkery
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Foildarragh, Co. Tipperary

  3. Local Happenings - Plagues

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    About fifty years ago a great plague broke out in Rear Cross called the cholera and there was a tree in one filed and it was able to cure the cholera in nine days. About thirty or forty people died with it. The people around here never knew anything about this cure. One day a man was very near dying and his wife went to a very old priest to know what would cure him, and he told her about this tree and where she would get it. She got this tree and she pulled off a bit of it and took it home with her. She put
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. plagues and epidemics (~104)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan O' Toole
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Denis O' Toole
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary