School: Donore (roll number 6668)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Nic Eóin
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- (continued from previous page)come and the man used to weigh out a certain amount of meal and flour and give it to each person in turn.
There was a priest in this district named Father Cullen. One morning during the famine he was going around begging food for the poor, and he came to the house of a Catholic and asked him in God's name to give him some food for the poor, but the man said he couldn't afford it. When the priest was returning he met the man again, and this time he asked the priest what prayers he prayed on him as all his potatoes had gone bad. The priest said that he didn't pray any prayers on him, but when he refused to give potatoes to the poor he refused them to God.
Patrick Lennon (Scolaire)
Got from Mr John Bates (aged 74)
Sheephouse
Drogheda.
- Collector
- Patrick Lennon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr John Bates
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Sheephouse, Co. Meath
