School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)child out of her arms, and threw it on the road. The child was killed, and the poor woman went down on her knees and cursed the servant. The servant then came over to hit her a wallop with a stick, but he could not move the hand the stick was in. He went away and when he was crossing the gap, he fell and split his skull against the ground.
- During the famine of 1846 and 1847 the Indian porridge was boiled in Aughnadrum, in the house where Brian Farrelly now lives.
- Collector
- Philip Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rahardrum, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Terry Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rahardrum, Co. Cavan
- MARY GLENNANThere was a well known old woman in this district named Mary Glennan. She died about forty years ago. She was the oldest woman in the district. She told some terrible tales about the(continues on next page)
