School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Owning, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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- (continued from previous page)food to some poor people. Some of whom lived on Indian meal so as to save something for the starving people.
A certain Mr. Carroll from Tullahought was appointed to distribute porridge at a shop, where now stands Delaney's public house, to crowds of poor people who walked (tho) for miles to get it, some of whom died on the way to, or from Tullahought. Thousands of those people were left uninterred and others emigrated to America to escape starvation at home. The bones of many poor Irish, who then died on shipboard, whiten to day the bottom of the sea from Ireland to America.
- Collector
- Brigid Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullahought, Co. Kilkenny
