School: Duleek (C.) (roll number 3114)

Location:
Duleek, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchadha
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  1. Another story of the famine
    In some places the people killed the donkeys and ate them. The people were to be seen naked in the cold weather prowling in the turnips fields trying to pull up the roots to eat them. There was an old man named Fisher and he came to a house in the moate. The womens name was Mary Stane and her brother Pat. He knocked at the door and the woman asked him
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Gilsenan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Duleek, Co. Meath