School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 373
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- Dick Walsh in Coolionan told me he often heard his father and mother talking about the famine times.The very poor used to get leave from the big farmers to dig through a field from which the potatoes has already been dug for any that might be left behind. He said his mother often spent the day at it as a girl. There were so many poor people that each would only get a small division of the field to dig in .
I remember old Mrs. Walsh -she is dead some years -ten or twelve and she was then very old . She told me she remembered that in the famine times food-soup and meal- used to be given out in Ballivor in the house now used as Courthouse and occupied by Patk Mc Gearty. - Informant
- Dick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
