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School: Birr (Mercy Convent)

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Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Sr. Flannan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 180

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    Despite the fact that many got food in this way yet thousands died of starvation and buried in pits. Tradition has it that all round the ruins of the old fever hospital in Scurragh and around the old workhouse human bones have been dug up several times.
    The above account was got from John Kennedy, Clonoughill, Birr.
    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
    Informant
    John Kennedy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonoghil Upper, Co. Offaly