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School: Fairymount, Crettyard, Carlow (roll number 4776)

Location:
Doonane, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Gormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0838, Page 018

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    The old Barrack now demolished was used as a soup kitchen or distributing place where people got porridge and sometimes soup, or were supplied with the means of making a [ca?]
    I have heard these stories of the famine times related round my own fireside, from old people who received the information from those older still.
    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
    Mary B. Hennesy
    Gender
    Female