School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Droim Raithne, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 578
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- In certain parts of this district the people suffered more from the famine than in other parts A tinker was looking on at his child dying from hunger and had no food to give her. Soon after he himself unable to endure the hunger any longer ran into a house near by to try to get some food. There was a pot of porriage on the fire boiling and he immediately snapped a saucepan of the boiling porridge and drank it with out even waiting for it to cool. The people in the house were frightened but it took no effect on the man. On one occasion it was known that a number of tinkers lived for a long time on a few bits of potatoes that were thrown out by a woman that lived near by.
- Collector
- Teresa Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bryanmore Upper, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Mrs Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 99
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bryanmore Upper, Co. na hIarmhí
