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School: Abbeylara

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Abbeylara, Co. Longford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 0649

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    had nothing but a small quantity of oats. They had to sell the oats to get the money to pay the rent. It is that forty families who could not pay the rent were evicted in this district.
    Margaret Reilly
    Derragh
    Abbeylara
    Streete
    Co. Westmeath
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derragh, Co. Longford