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School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)

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Rathdowney, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Peter Hegarty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 331

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    turnips. Every night the people used to go over to Ballybrophy and steal the turnips. When the man found out about it he gave the people full permission to take all the turnips they wanted so the Rathdowney people and the Ballybrophy were not too hungry after all.
    That story was told to me by Mrs Hogan, The Conoboro, Rathdowney, Leix who is 80 years of age.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P.J. Cummins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathdowney, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Mrs Hogan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80