School: Kingscourt (C.)
- Location:
- Kingscourt, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ní Cholgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1008, Page 072
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“There are a great many stories told about the famine which happened in 1845.”
(continued from previous page)said that a certain man who lived about two miles from Kingscourt had a field of turnips, it was on those turnips, that all the country people lived only for them they would have all died.
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“I heard another story about two men who were coming from Kingscourt one night.”
I heard another story about two men who were coming from Kingscourt one night. There was a great storm and the two were blown through the air! during the night and they could not get home. The next morning they found themselves in Shercock. (no title)
“There was a man one time who was going to be hanged...”
There was a man one time who was to be hanged, and the man who was going to hang him told him if he was able to make a riddle that they could not guess the answer to he would get free. So the man who was(continues on next page) - Collector
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