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School: Baile Fionáin, Fearann Fuar (roll number 7990/1)

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Ballyfinnane, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0459, Page 166

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    Long ago when the famine was in Ireland people found it hard to support their families, so they handed them over to people called Soupers who fed them and braught them up to the Prodestant religion.
    One man handed his child to them and after few days he got sorry so he went to the priest for advice. The priest told him he'd get back the child for him. So he did. The head of the Soupers who was a parson
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sheila Fitzgearld
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballygamboon Lower, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Nagle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballygamboon Lower, Co. Kerry