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Post Famine Letter From a Cork Parish Priest to a Cork Rector, 1849
Co. Cork: Letter written by Fr. Michael Begley, P.P., to Rev. Mr. Crofton,
Kinsale, 30 Oct., 1849, the writer asks for relief on the rent owed for
the ground on which the chapel is built at Ballingarry, and the houses
in which he holds a school, he stresses the reduced circumstances of
his parishioners owning to the late Famine - hence the impossibility of
building a new school An interesting and informative, 3pp letter. As a m/
ss, w.a.f. (1)
Estimate €150 - €200