School: An Píce (The Pike, Shinrone)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dúibheacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0532, Page 056
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“After the famine in 1846 and 1847 there were 52 families evicted in Cille Cunnigan Mór in the parish of Shinrone by Charles Trench.”
(continued from previous page)Shinrone by Charles French. He wanted to make it into a Bullock Park to fatten cattle to send to England.
Their houses were knocked down and their little farms were made into one large farm and given to a Scotch man by the name of Mr Crosdale. Some of those that were evicted got farms and the rest of them had to emigrate to foreign countries or look for employment at home. Sixteen Marys[?] went out on the road and cursed the Frenchs.
Anne M. Mc Loughlin
Told by my father.
- If there is a rainbow in the sky, if the wind is coming from the south, if the birds are flying low, if the soot is falling, if the cat is sleeping by the fire, if the hills appear near, if the moon hides it self in the clouds, and if the wall get damp, it is going to rain.
When there is going to be fine weather the sky gets clear and a fog appears on the hills and the hills appear(continues on next page)