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School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)

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Ballindine, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire de Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 496

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    When the potato crop failed yellow meal stirabout was the staple food of the people. A man named MacDonnell from Dunmore used to supply the people with the meal. A man with a big family used to get more than the rest. Any man that had no family used to take a child from the neighbour's house and say that it was his own so that he would get the meal. Lord Dranmore used give soup to the people and they were called soupers.
    The soup was given to them to try to proyselytize them and very few that took it
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Brigid Mac Hugh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 60
    Address
    Lisduff, Co. Mayo