School: Bán Riabhach, Old Leighlin
- Location:
- Baunreagh, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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- Famine Times 24 1 38
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I am to tell you what I could about the famine. Any person I asked about it would prefer not to relate anything they knew. My aunt told me there was a big pot at Carey;s in Old Leighlin for boiling stirabout. The Carlow Union gave the meal to make it.
The poor people would take their allowance home in bags and were very thankful to get it. A great number of people died from hunger
Every person was able to eat three times as much as before the famine.
There is an old story told about a poor widow who buried her husband
She had four children and she had nothing to give them. She went to look for something to eat and she was not successful. She picked some stones on her way home and she told the children she had potatoes. She put them in the pot to boil thinking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Mac Donald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldleighlin, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Miss Katie Mc Donald
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Oldleighlin, Co. Carlow
