School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)came to dig them they were all rotten and were no good to anyone. The people tried to eat nettles and grass and a lot of them died in the ditches. All the graveyards were filled with the dead people. At the same time there were ships of wheat going from Ireland to England. At every crossroads there were Protestants with big boilers of soup and bread. If the people would turn Protestant they would get the soup and bread but none of them turned.
- There was a man in Ballyduff parish who used to make a lot of baskets with rushes. When he had them made he used to sell them to the people. Sometimes he would go into town to sell them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Power
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrickadustara, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Power
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickadustara, Co. Waterford