School: Port Omna (B) (roll number 2174)
- Location:
- Portumna, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)during the famine period, lived near Willmount and had no food, so she went to this gentleman's estate McDonagh's and took some turnips. The gentleman warned her not to come again, so she tried a second time to get some turnips for her starving family but was caught in act by the gentleman and shot.
- Collector
- Alban Couser
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Portumna, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Couser
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Portumna, Co. Galway