School: Bigstone, Baltinglas (roll number 14643)
- Location:
- Ballyraggan, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Héilighe
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- (continued from previous page)And our boat is at hand
To take another exile
From poor old Ireland.
The potatoes rotted away in the pits and in the ground. The English sent over Indian meal to Ireland and the people used this instead. It was sent to a man who lived in Graney. His name was Fish Byrne. The people were given a quarter of this meal daily and where there were big families the men used to go to work hungry and leave the food with their wives and children
In the years before the famine the potatoes were very numerous and the people put them in the ditches to make room for other crops. It is said that the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeen North, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mrs Foley
- Gender
- Female
