School: Monedarragh, Mostrim (roll number 7642)
- Location:
- Móin na Darach, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 507
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- (continued from previous page)took them any more. A few days after they came and took them again. He caught them again and he told the guards. They were put to Jail for three months with hard labour. When they were let out some of them died for want of food.
At the time of the famine there lived a man in Boherquill named "Jack Sprowls" He was a protestant . One day he told them all the poop people that lived near him that he would give them a hundred pounds if they turned protestants. Some of the people said they would like to get a hundred pounds but they would sooner die of hunger(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Nugent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tSráid, Co. na hIarmhí
- Informant
- Mrs Fulham
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
