School: Littlewood, Coolkenna
- Location:
- Killabeg, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: John Sargent
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0922, Page 288
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- This place was badly affected by the famine: Relief schemes were organized. At Furlong's mill the road cuts between two deep banks This is where a new road was made to make the gradient less steep.
Men's wages 4/ per day
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Gullets were made on the Coolkenna Shillelagh road.Mr Haskins of Coolkenno hall was appointed one of the distributors of Indian meal.
Each person was allowed a small tin full of Indian meal. This was made into stirabout into which turnips were slicedIt took two men working all day to dig enough potatoes for the meals of the people of "The Hall"Emigrants ships took away some of the younger inhabitants.
