School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Cionn tSáile, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: An tSr. Úna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 346
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- (continued from previous page)was the charge against the prisoner that when faint with hunger she snatched a few potatoes. After her sentence the poor woman had to walk to the junction escorted by two policemen.
- This reminds me of the other stories of the magistrates of the Famine years. One of them who had a large stock of milch cows, gave orders that the contents[?] of the milk pans from which the cream was skimmed every morning should be emptied in(continues on next page)
