School: Beanntraighe (B.) (roll number 15135)
- Location:
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dr. Mac Carrthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0281, Page 062
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago when the Famine was in Ireland there was some corn brought into Bantry Bay in ships. This corn was to be given out to the poor people. The military had the giving out of it, and they used the Deal Yard as a store for holding the corn.
The military had a magistrate over the distributing of the corn in Bantry. This man's name was O Connell and he lived in Beech House, where Mrs Hurst now lives.
One day there were some bags of grain left outside the door. In one of the bags there was a little hole. A poor woman came along from the west and she began to pick out some grains with her hand to eat them.(continues on next page)
