School: Cill Cholmáin, Shanagolden (roll number 4014)
- Location:
- Cill Cholmáin, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chriobáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0484, Page 038
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- (continued from previous page)no mistake. Poor creatures at home trying to hold on to their little handful of potatoes, in holes at the back of the house, or maybe set in the garden. Up night after night in turns like my father, and the rest of them, with pitchforks ready to stick man, woman or child that dared lay a finger on as much as a little (?) of a wind-blown potato. Is it any wonder, in troth, that the people bolted out of the country like rabbits for years after that scourging.
The above was told to me by.
Patrick Cregan,
Knockboyheen,
Kilcolman,
Ardagh.He is over seventy years and the best story teller in the parish of Kilcolman.
- Informant
- Patrick Cregan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 75
- Address
- Cnoc Baoithín, Co. Luimnigh
