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There is a house some distance from here, and my father was told by a very old woman that Exp. Soldiers were in this house during the famine days. They captured a great many prisoners in the locality and they buried some of them half-alive in an old hay h
There is a house some distance from here, and my father was told by a very old woman that Exp. Soldiers were in this house during the famine days. They captured a great many prisoners in the locality and they buried some of them half-alive in an old hay h

Joe Whelan
Aillbrack, Kilfarboy


Co. Clare
Schools Folklore Scheme
1937-38--National Folklore Collection University College Dublin
Published in Clare Local Studies Project, 1997