School: Cill Cruain (B)

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Ballyglass South, Co. Galway
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 436

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  1. In the famine times the people suffered severely from the hunger and much sickness. There was a man called "Sanford Wills" and one day he set up boiler in the market square in Castlerea and made Indian meal porridge and any Catholic that was to get a feed of this porridge had to change his faith and he would be fed. Many people changed their faith and got back to be Catolics again. During the famine times the people were only able to get two (only) ounces of tea one stone of flour ounces of sugar. In the T, famine times the people had to shake the potatoes and harrow them into the ground but most of them did not grow. There was a man living in Pullac.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Shiel
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael Shiel
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Lisnageeragh, Co. Galway