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School: Bullán (roll number 13432)

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Bullaun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0130

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    Famine Times
    I got this folklore from my Uncle.
    The cause of the famine was that the year before it the potatoes were very plenty and the people piled them in heaps against the walls. It seems that God got vexed and they all decayed in the ground. It is said that an old man went in to some house in Bullaun and he told the woman of the house that he did not eat a bit for three days. The woman of the house put down a pot of porridge for him. When he had the porridge eaten he started off and he lay down int he side of the road and died. There was also an old woman got dead round Bullaun.
    Got by:- Neillie Wade, Benmore, Bullaun, Loughrea, Co. Galway.
    From:- My Uncle John age 65 years 19-12-38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Wade
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    John
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway