School: An Mhágh Bheag, Droichead Banndan (roll number 11025)
- Location:
- Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Uallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 050
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- 1. There was a man named Jack Lyons with his wife and five children.
He died of starvation and he hadn't a penny to bury him.
The neighbours around made up a collection for him.
After the funeral his wife noticed a potatoe rooted out of the drill so she got the spade and dug the first stalk and the grandest potatoes that she ever saw came out, and they were only six or seven weeks growing.
The woman was so surprised and so frightened that she fainted in the drill and stayed there.
Almightly God worked this miracle for the poor woman because in those days there were no home assistance or pensions.
2. A man named Timothy Lyon's lived in Scrahan where Connie(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr James Hanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sranaviddoge, Co. Cork
