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Gairid

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Gairid don áit seo, sa bhliain 1847, aimsir an drochshaoil cuireadh thart ar 2,600 deoraí bocht ó Éirinn in uaigheanna uirísle, gan chomhartha os a gcionn. cailleadh go dealbh deariól iad i bparóiste Learpholl, sin í an chríoch a bhí orthu tar éis dóibh teitheadh lena n-anam ón Ghorta Mhór 1845-52. Near this place in 1847, some 2,600 destitute Irish Famine migrants were buried in unmarked pauper graves. They had died in extreme poverty in the parish of Liverpool, so ending their flight from the Great Hunger 1845-52.

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