School: Ballinalee (roll number 1174)
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- Ballinalee, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Mainchín
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- There was a woman who lived on Gelsha Hill, Parish of Clumbcille, Barony of Granard, C. Longford and her house was a little hut.During the famine for a week she had only a head of cabbage and she lived on that for that time.Her name was Kitty Clarke. Before that she was Mrs Rogers.She is dead about twenty years.Her nickname was "Sandballs" because she made her living collecting fine sand, wetting it, making it into balls which she dried in the sun and sold for scrubbing.[Hugh Carthy got this from his father]
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