School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)to distribute. In some cases the distributor was dishonest. He would give a lot of meal to a big farmer, and a small amount to a small farmer. This didn't happen always.
Miss Fanny Parnell, a sister of Charles had also sympathy with the people. She made suits of clothes and knit socks for the poor people.
- There is an old hospital in the town about half a mile outside Virginia. One day a priest came in and he found something scratching inside a coffin, so he lifted the lid and a woman came out. She wasn't dead at all. It is believed the woman worked for years after.
