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School: Nart (roll number 11660)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0952, Page 178

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    turf stack even though the police were in the dwelling house at the time.
    Bankers
    This name was given to people who bought corn during the "Bad Years", made it into oatmeal, and sold it to the poor people for seven shillings a stone.
    The O'Hares of Cremoyle, Parish of Kilmore were bankers. They had a big stock of oatmeal when the Indian meal came out. This meal rotted and dug out of the hogheads in maggots.
    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
    Informant
    Miss A. Abbott
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Lisnaveane, Co. Monaghan