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School: Scoil na mBráthar, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 16684)

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Midleton, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Hoistín
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  1. A Story of the  Famine

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    Paul Murphy
    got story from Mrs Murphy
    A Story of the Famine.
    In the year of the famine the people of Kildorrery (a country town in county cork) were very poor, but there was a very wealthy woman there also, and she was nearly as much charitable as she was wealthy.
    Every day the streets of Kildorrery were lined with poor people waiting for Mrs Carroll, the wealthy woman to come along with her servant. Each poor person used to have a bowl of his own and get it filled with Indian meal (which is used for feeding pigs.) But day by day the poor people were getting smaller in number, because Indian meal is by no means a healthy food.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paul Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Murphy
    Gender
    Female