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School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)

Location:
Baile Shláine, Co. na Mí
Teacher:
Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 284

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    of men and girls and all the wages they would get was two pence half penny a day and if he caught any of them eating any of the raw turnips he'd get them flogged because he knew that there was no guards to prevent him. To-day his great great grandsons has not one penny piece and it is said that some of the men cursed him and their curse fell on him.
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  2. The Famine Times

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    An old man named Pat Leonard told me last night of the Famine Time. He does not remember it himself but his father often told him of it. His father told him many sorrowful stories which he told me last night.
    He told me a man named Kelsh had a field in front of my home tilled with turnips. He had poor starved girls weeding them
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      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
        1. an gorta mór (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jane Morgan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Pighill, Co. na Mí
    Informant
    Pat Leonard
    Gender
    Male