School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)place dressed up as a plumber. When he came into the house the servant girl knew that he was a priest, so she went and told the soldiers. The soldiers came out and caught the priest and chopped his head off. One night there was a thunder storm and the woman was sleeping with another woman. A flash of lightning struck the servant and killed her and that happened her for telling on the priest.
- In the year 1847 when the Famine was in Ireland, the people were starving with the hunger. There were loads of yellow meal being shipped from England to Cork. The people were so hungry that when the loads of yellow meal were going along the Ballyduff road the people used to cut the bags and let the meal fall out along the road and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs O' Keeffe
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
