School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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- (continued from previous page)found the beggar dead on the road and the two hundred pounds in his pocket. "Now was I not right," said the master to the coachman, "if the beggar had kept the meal and eaten it he would be alive now and I would be dead."
- The old people still tell many stories about the Great Famine. This district was greatly affected. It was very thickly populated before 1846. There were three families living on our farm before the Famine and they all emigrated(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Joseph Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Balleagny, Co. Westmeath