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School: Louth (C.) (roll number 3252)

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Louth, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Chasaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 244

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    There was a man called James lynch drowned in Swages pool, and another man drowned in the Clocan River. The Big Grinding Mill in Channonrock was burned down a hundred years ago and there was a woman in the top storey mending socks. She jumped down from the top window and was uninjured. He name was Elis Morgan.
    Plagues and epidemices.
    There cam a famine on the potatoes in 1847. About one hundred years ago there came a disease on the people called the cholera. It swept the familes in millions. Small pox cam over the bodies of the people about one hundred years ago and the eyes fell out of their heads.
    Then there came the pox mark it broke out over the bodies of the people and they suffered desperately.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eveline Byrne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Chanonrock, Co. Louth