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School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 239

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  1. The Big Shout

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    Some years before the famine the people were digging the potatoes. It was very fine and the work was finished early in the year. Back in Toomevara the Big Shout started. It was taken up from garden to garden from hill to hill until it spread from coast to coast all over the land. It lasted a full day and it is said it was the last of the good years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    3. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Connors
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moankeenane, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Tobias Tynan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    25
    Address
    Rathmoy, Co. Tipperary