School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)knows quite a few of Thornton's songs.
- During the famine the food the people got was Indian meal. Every day a boiler was filled with Indian meal, and it was boiled, and the people from all round the district came in for the full of a three-quart gallon. My great-grandmother was living in this town, during the famine, but her son and two daughters had to emigrate to America.
- Collector
- Brendan Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bridget Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- There was a man in this town the time of the famine called Johnny Snow. He used to go over to Oldcastle. One morning he went to work and he died below. This is the famine during which Parnell gave the Meal. There(continues on next page)
