School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 276
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- (continued from previous page)came to the rock which the people were on. They picked up as many of the unconscious men as they could see and brought them to their boat. They rowed home and when they came ashore in Gunpoint they divided the men between the three houses in the eastern end of Gunpoint. Each man had five men and when they carried them to their houses, they fed them with oat-meal porridge, because that was the food used by the people at the time. The men that came to Jerry Callaghan's house couldn't talk English very good, and when one of them had his plate of porridge eaten he began to call for "More Mungee". Anyone of the people at the house didn't understand him, so one of the boys who was in the house said that perhaps he wanted more food so he filled(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gunpoint, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Jeremiah Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 97
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Gunpoint, Co. Cork
