School: Cill Bheacáin (B.) (roll number 13659)
- Location:
- Béacán, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: P.S. Mac Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 473
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- (continued from previous page)paths through the roads so the people could go to mass. The snow storm was so bad and so much snow fell that it was the month of May when the last of it was gone. Another bad year was 1924. It was called the "year of the bad potatoes". That year no person hardly had any potatoes except rotten ones.
The turf was also a failure that year and people cut a great many trees for firewood. Some people used to steal it. Some people were employed by the people of the towns to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Mc Garry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béacán, Co. Mhaigh Eo
