School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 038
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- It is said that the potato stalks were left in the ground and that small potatoes, about the size of marbles, grew under them. In some of these one eye was found. These were planted the following year and so the people procured seed. (for the following year.)
Government relief reached this district. Meal was distributed at Farranfore. A story is told of a man who lived in a cabin on the farm now owned by Mick O'Sullivan, bragg. He was starving and set out for Farranfore where he expected some meal. He got the meal but when he was nearly home he dropped dead by the roadside.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Daniel Scannell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Ardcrone, Co. Kerry
- (continued from previous page)A woman and her husband lived near Currens in a little cabin. One day when she had but little potatoes a poor starving woman came to her and begged for some. She gave her what she had. No sooner had the woman gone than she remembered
