2 Sentences With "sad to relate"

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Hundreds of men, > women, and children were buried in the ruins. Some assured their friends > that they were uninjured, but imprisoned by the timbers upon and about them. > Others were dying and dead. Every nerve was strained to relieve the poor > unfortunates, when, sad to relate, a lantern broke and set fire to the > wreck.
25th 1877, when sixty men and women sat down to dinner. Ringforts were features of the parish, with excellent examples on the farms of Quinlans and McElligotts of Coolnaleen, Galvin's and Whelan's of Finuge, but sad to relate these no longer exist. In olden times, Finuge was not just a townland, it was a parish that stretched form Dysert to Ballinruddery. There were several townlands in the parish of Finuge including Bealkilla, Kilcrean, Knockamoohane and Ballinruddery, Garryantanavalla, Ballygrennan, Moyassa, Knockanassig, Grogeen.