School: Turin (roll number 7827)
- Location:
- Tevrin, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bríd Mhistéal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)sufficient work for every unemployed man [?] at the end of the day each man got his 6d and a little can of yellow meal to support himself, his wife and children for the following day.
Bad as the payment was, I suppose it kept some from dying of starvation. This happened in 1847. This yellow meal was given out in a three quart can ful for each family for one day - at a store at Cloughan Cross-Roads.
Many stories are told of the shooting and murdering of English planters by desperate Irishmen at this time of plantation -1651.
- Collector
- Philomena L' Estrange
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tevrin, Co. Westmeath
