School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 369
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- In the year 1846 and 1847 there was a great famine in Ireland. There are a great many stories told about it.All this time the people of this place were very poor.
One day during the famine a poor old man named Sweeney came into a certain house in Croagh. He looked very thin and pale. He asked the good-natured woman of the house for some meal that he might boil it and eat it. She had only one stone of meal and she gave him a saucepanful of it. He out it to boil at the fire. When it was nearly boiled he took a piece of turnip out of his pocket and gave it to the woman saying, 'Grind it and put it into the stir-about'. He left the turnip boiling until it was soft and eatable.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eily Judge
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Henry Judge
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Crowagh or Dunneill Mountain, Co. Sligo
