School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 7636)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br. L. Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)Queen. The ports were open and the wheat and corn collected by the Land Lords were shipped from the country and nothing left for the people to live on for the coming years. No seeds for the next year's crop. When the terrible Turk came to Cork harbour they met British ships going out with better food than they were bringing in. Every county in Ireland suffered but particularly the West. There were schemes of public works started. The wages were very small. They were supposed to get food. It consisted of Indian meal and black bread. This food gave the people a terrible fever called the "Colera". It was Leix people got the name "Queens County poor and proud". We had in our district at that time one of Ireland's greatest patriots namely "James Fintan Lalor" of Tinnikille, Rakeen Mountrath. He fought and wrote every way to get the people attended to.
- Collector
- B. Dunne
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Dunne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
