School: Fíodhnach (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 4470)
- Location:
- Feenagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Ghrádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0496, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)Every poor person got a ticket from the Government and when they gave in there ticket to the master of the home they got enough porridge for themselves, their wifes, and their children.The people living around the river almost lived on fish. They went to the "Red Bog" where the river Deel rises and got what is called "Mackawee" and put it in the river. It was like milk for it discoloured the water and that killed hundreds of fish. It was a great long weed and its colour was a kind of red but was a very dangerous thing for it was illegal.In the year 1887 from the first of May until the end of September was a very dry summer the people thought in the beginning that this would be another famine.
- Collector
- Nora Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Accrour Bridge, Co. Limerick
