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School: Ballinagore (C.) (roll number 16341)

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Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Miss A. Heduan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 219

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    months. All work except cleaning roads and saving live-stock and repairing commucations was at a stand still, and many lives were lost. A man died in Killard on instructions from the corner. He was burried in Bealrath graveyard without an inquest. The neighbours had considerable trouble in procuring a coffin and carying it across fields and ditches.

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    A ball of fire fell on a hill in Dromore and then it lit on a fort in Lorig. The man that owned the fort was called McCormack. He saw it happening and he got rheumatic pains and he was a cripple all his life-time.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Mangan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Informant
    Pat Grehan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Rahinmore, Co. Westmeath