School: Caladh (B.) (roll number 11920)
- Location:
- Callow, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Ciaráin
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- The first year of the famine the potatoes failed. The people were dying with the hunger along the roads. The people began getting relief and the used to get a pound of meal every day. They used to make the stirabout in the night so that it would be set in the morning.
- Collector
- Francis Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rinbrack, Co. Mayo