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   setting potatoes in the garden he would find dozens of cannon - balls where they were fired across the fields. Cromwell is supposed to have died of a disease called "the Carran Ague".

   

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   Hedge - schools were the only sort of schools that were in Ireland during Penal Times. The children used to gather in crowds under big trees and at the backs of fences. A teacher came to teach. A child, usually a boy, used to go up and sit in the top of the tree to watch for the enemies. The reason

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