School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs E.J. Roberts
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 335
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- There was an old man long ago who remembered the famine. He used to tell a story about it. The men were so hungry that they used to pull turnips from a field and they brought them to the forge where that man worked and roasted them on the forge fire and ate them.
Old people in the district used to tell a story about when the men were making a road through Stirabout Hill. Each day when their work was over, they had to walk to Kell's about five miles away to get a quart of Stirabout for to do themselves and their families till the next day.
- Collector
- Arthur Bell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr C. Bell
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughan, Co. Meath
