School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 194](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0544%2FCBES_0544_194.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 194
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Borrisoleigh
- XML Page 194
- XML “A Lucky Thought”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- During the "bad times" there was a woman living near here and she had a big family of small children. One day they had nothing to eat and the wheat was not ripe. The poor woman did not know what to do.
While she was saying her prayers a thought came to her. She went out to the corn field and cut off some of the ripest heads of wheat she could get, winnowed off the chaff in the wind, ground the grain with a quern stone, and made a cake of bread. It was the turning point of the famine for they were never hungry again.Told by Tobias Fynan Aged 25 years
Rathmoyne
BorrisoleighThomas Gleeson
Knockinure
Borrisoleigh
October 4 1938- Collector
- Thomas Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockinure, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Tobias Tynan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 25
- Address
- Rathmoy, Co. Tipperary