School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)

Location:
An Príosún Thoir, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 15_018

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 15_018

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  1. In the time of the famine there was a road made in Bollinhoe, in the Barony of Carra. The people who worked on it were very poor and they got bad pay. They lived on yellow meal and on that account the road was called the yellow road. A little traffic goes on it now but it is a bad road.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Kennedy
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael Kennedy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cnoc Luachra, Co. Mhaigh Eo