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School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)

Location:
Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0102

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    I heard it said that during the famine there was a young girl who lived outside Ballymote. She went to a neighbours house and asked for some Indian meal. While the woman of the house was turning around to get the meal, she found the girl lying on the floor. She fainted with hunger.
    I heard of another man who had no potato crop so he gathered all the buds he could get together and he set them and he had a great potato crop.
    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
    Rosie Scanlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo