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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh

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Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
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An tSr. Seanán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0535, Page 440

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  1. Historical Tradition - The Famine

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    During the famine there was a hospital where the malt house is now in Brewery Lane and another one where the Christian Brothers school now.
    There was such a numerous lot of people dying in the hospitals and on the side of the road during the famine.
    They had not time to be digging graves for them all, so they dug three big trenches at the back of Lisboney Abbey and put the corpse down there.
    The spout in Dublin Road was built in the year 1822. The men that were building it had four pence a day, and the man who was over them, was a stone cutter and he had five or six shillings a day.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Reynolds
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Address
    Dublin Road, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr Pat Reynolds
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Dublin Road, Co. Tipperary