School: Bigstone, Baltinglas (roll number 14643)
- Location:
- Ballyraggan, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Héilighe
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- (continued from previous page)price. They used them as human food.
That same man did a lot of good for the poor during that period. There still remains the ruins of an old house by the roadside within a few yards of the grand entrance leading to Beechy-Park house It was known by the name of the porridge or stirabout house.
This is how it got its name. He got his servants to cook Indian meal porridge and give it out to the poor. That was the first time the blight came upon the potatoes
In the years before the famine they put the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Annie Miley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyraggan, Co. Kildare