School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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- (continued from previous page)to put a spoon of ashes in his mouth and put out of the game.
- The Shudane boreen was making in 1846 the time of the famine. The women as well as the the men were working on it. The men got 6D a day and the women got 3D. Every morning the women had to go over to Gurteen for a can of Indian meal. It was at the house of Mr. Pat Carr, of Gurteen the meal was kept. It used to be boiling in a pot all day and it was always more water then meal the poor people used to get.
During the famine the roads were making and the men got only sixpence a day and the women got three pence and during this time a woman named Mrs. Qualter died on the road and was buried in a drain in a bog by the land-lord's orders.
There is a road named the "bush road" in the middle of the village. It is so called because a tragedy took place there long ago and an old man who was cutting(continues on next page)
