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- (continued from previous page)disease. The people thought that she died and they put her in a coffin and left her outside the door.
It happened then that there was a man passing by and he heard her moaning. She was taken out of the coffin and it is said she worked on the roads after for a penny a day.
There is a wall on the Oldcastle road which was built during the famine to give work to the local people.
This wall borders one side of the Marqis of Headfort's estate and is three miles long, six feet high and one foot broad.