School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Ballynaberney, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 259
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- (continued from previous page)259and also a little can.
They themselves used to eat their fill and bring home a little can of it to the family. The Government started what is known as the Public Works. The hill in Raheen was cut through to form a road, and the shingle was dumped between Mr. Ryan's gate and the "Camper Doyle's. That is why the stone posts known as the cut stones are there as a fence as it would not be easy to build on the shingle.
A great many died during the famine. A man died on the roadside in the townland of Graiguemore, and it is said that the small boys in the district cut the buttons off his coat to toss with.
Bab Warren,
Raheen.Information recd from
Thomas Warren,
Raheen,
Strahart,
Ferns
Wexford
Recd. from older people
- Collector
- Bab Warren
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Warren
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Raheen, Co. Wexford
