School: Shountrade, Adare (roll number 6657)
- Location:
- Shantraud, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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- Soup-Houses of 1820After starvation and famine when England was trying to make the Irish people turn Protestant, they set up soup-houses throughout the country. The local houses were situated in Croagh, Ballingarry and Askeaton. One man in Croagh went to the soup-house. He used to get a horse from parson Orchard, to take him to Protestant service.One day as he thought to exchange his horse for that of a Catholic neighbour's, the neighbour's son, a little boy of four years, was listening to the bargain and he said to his father, "Do not exchange our horse for that old souper's horse". After the little boy had said these words the man gave up the Protestant Religion. Two other men(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Stephen Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynagool, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Cornelious Normoyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Rower More, Co. Limerick
