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School: Drom na Coradh (Dromnacurra) (roll number 12744)

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Droim na Cora, Co. Chiarraí
Teacher:
Cathal Máinséal
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    buried uncoffined in trenches, and sometimes there were no people to bury them, or if there were, they were too weak for the work.
    The landlord demanded a rent and very many unable to pay it were thrown out of their homes to perish and die by the wayside. About a million people are supposed to have emigrated from Ireland to the United States, Canada, Scotland and England to escape death from starvation at home as the majority of these poor people had to leave their homes through the failure of the potato crop to live or die in foreign lands.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
        1. an gorta mór (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Lucid
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clochán Seanáin, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Patrick Lucid
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Clochán Seanáin, Co. Chiarraí