School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
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- During the famine a poor man from Brownstown used to walk four miles to break stones for twopence a day. Every evening when he would get the twopence he would buy a quarter stone of oatmeal for his supper.
One evening he did not get the twopence and when he came home he had to go around to boil, gathering weeds to boil for his supper- Collector
- Mary Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brownstown or Donnageaga, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Macken
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Brownstown or Donnageaga, Co. Mayo