School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 437
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- (continued from previous page)pitted them they rotted and melted away.
During the famine the people had to eat Indian meal. It is said that our ancestors used to come into this town for a little gallon of boiled meal and bring it back to the starving people.
Hundreds of peopl died in this district during the Famine. The dead were sometimes not buried while others were thrown into trenches and in bogs.
One day a woman who was starving along with a young child went into a field there were three cows grazing in this field and she milked one of them.
The servant boy came and caught her and he took the milk(continues on next page)
