Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0016
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“The bow used be seen sitting on a style outside a farmer's house in Ballyhogue.”
The bow used be seen sitting on a style outside a farmer's house in Ballyhogue. She was there for three or four weeks crying and lamenting, and then the woman of the house got vexed, and she got the gun and went out and fired a shot at the bow, and the next morning there was a big lump of jelly in the place where the bow used be sitting The next week this woman's brother died, so it was a very unlucky thing for her to fire a shot at the bow.
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“There was a certain house in the Co. Wexford where they used to give out the yellow meal...”
There was a certain house in the
Co. Wexford where they used to
give out the yellow meal
in the Famine time. The poor people
were all allowed a pound of
meal each. These people who were
giving out the meal in order to
save it. They used to make(continues on next page)