School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 435
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- This district was very thickly populated before the famine. The people died mostly of the diseases that followed the Famine.
During the famine a rich man named Kellett lived in Cornasesk. He was very rich and he kept a large number of men in his employment.
He paid these men very poorly. He only gave them four-pence a day. Some of these men had large families and they were not able to support them.
There was one man appointed for feeding the cattle named Tom Farrelly. This man had a large Family to support and he was not able to feed them.
One day when he was boiling for the cattle he lifted up(continues on next page)
