School: An Mhágh Bheag, Droichead Banndan (roll number 11025)
- Location:
- Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Uallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 047
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- 1. I got these stories from my mother and she got them from her grandmother and her name was Mrs. Nyhan Castletown Kenneigh, Enniskeane.
She had a bin of oatmeal and the starving people came to her for food.
They came so plentifully that by night time the bin was empty.
She was in a terrible state that night for she had no food for her husbands breakfast next morning but she prayed hard and next morning the bin was full of meal.
This was a miracle.
2. On another occasion her potatoes were so bad that she cut out the eyes and set them and next year when she dug them they were the finest potatoes she had ever seen.
It was God worked these(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teddy Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Murragh, Co. Cork
