School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)twelve inches above the hard surface of the beach, they were covered over by about five feet of mud. The oldest inhabitants of Ballyhack had no idea that there was a weir in being here; it was probably for the special use of the occupants of the Castle in ancient times.)In the famine years of forty-six and forty-seven the people from the most distressed places inland flocked to this district and subsisted on the abundance of fish that a merciful Providence, provided the people here with. I have heard old men say that it was no uncommon thing, to see heaps of the best qualities of fish, deposited on the beaches along the river side after every flow of the tide.The salmon fishing(continues on next page)
