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   “There was a certain house in the Co. Wexford where they used to give out the yellow meal...”

   

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   stirabout in a great big boiler an give a little of it to the poor people. They used to save some in this way for their own use There was one man in the neighbourhood and he was hungry and he went to this farmers place and says he "Now Mr. Fred I'm nearly dead And I hope your honour will not fail to give poor Bly before he die Wan precious hint of male."

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   “About seventy years ago in this Co. there used be great bonefires lit.”

   

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   About seventy years ago in this
   Co. there used to be great bonefire
   lit. . There were two or three
   nights in the year and the
   29th June, and the 24th June
   and at 'All Hallowe'en. There
   would be twenty or thirty
   fires lit on the one night.
   About that time. There was
   a man living in Brookhill

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