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School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)

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Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 194

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    During the "bad times" there was a woman living near here and she had a big family of small children. One day they had nothing to eat and the wheat was not ripe. The poor woman did not know what to do.
    While she was saying her prayers a thought came to her. She went out to the corn field and cut off some of the ripest heads of wheat she could get, winnowed off the chaff in the wind, ground the grain with a quern stone, and made a cake of bread. It was the turning point of the famine for they were never hungry again.
    Told by Tobias Fynan Aged 25 years
    Rathmoyne
    Borrisoleigh
    Thomas Gleeson
    Knockinure
    Borrisoleigh
    October 4 1938
    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
    Collector
    Thomas Gleeson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockinure, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Tobias Tynan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    25
    Address
    Rathmoy, Co. Tipperary