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School: Kellystown, Dunleer (roll number 3154)

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Kellystown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 137

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  1. Old Vessels Etc.

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
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  2. Famine Evictions

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    Famine Evictions :- After the famine and during it men and women were maintained by breaking stones for the County authorities. The food was their only wages and it consisted of Indian mash porridge twice daily boiled on the roadside. Galroostown means the "town of the red headed foreigner namely the Danes. The "Slough" - a corruption of the word Slieve is also included in the townland.
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