School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)keep in which corn was stored before the famine. During the famine it was used as a work-house before Schull workhouse was built. It is said that two poor people who were in the stores were very hungry and they went out to the strand to pick limpets and when the man who was in charge came out and found them there he began to whip them and they ran into a house and begged the woman of the house - a Mrs. Daly to let them go under the bed.
- This lady is now seventy years of age and the Mrs. Daly mentioned above was her mother. The only thing the people had was the wheat, and they had to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kate Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gunpoint, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Gunpoint, Co. Cork
