School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 437
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- (continued from previous page)them into a hole and cover them up. All the people had to sell the crops to pay the big rents and they had to die of hunger if they did not sell the crops they would we put out of the house. They did fever follow the famine and many people died with it in large numbers and one person used to take it from another.
Pupil: Chrissie Younge, Curraleigh Borrisoleigh. Co. Tipperary.
Whom got = Patrick Younge. Curraleigh Borrisoleigh. Co. Tipperary.
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- Collector
- James Small
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnacran Beg, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- William Small
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Gortnacran Beg, Co. Tipperary
- Long ago the time of the famine in my district a lot of harm was done. People used to be got on the side of the road dead. They were dead from sickness and(continues on next page)
