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May 2014
Letter dated 17 February 1847 from Richard Lewis to an unnamed recipient (“Most Noble Lord”), requesting that he open a relief store in the locality of Cootehill, county Cavan, as it would “remove a great calamity”. He also request a small allowance of meal to “keep off meagre famine”.
(NAI, Famine Relief Commission Papers, RLFC/3/2/4/26)
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