School: Corr Riabhach
- Location:
- Correagh Glebe, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: R. Mac Éamuis
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- In the famine times the Government used to send round a cart with porrige to the people, and sometimes the landlords would give bacon and soup to any person that would become a Protestant. Those who got help from the landlords were called "soupers".
Bernard O Reilly,
Lisgrey,
Co Cavan. - At the end of the lane leading to Lurgan Church a man lived by the name of Pat Farrelly, R.I.P. he died some years after the famine. In Correagh there was another old house. It was occupied by a man the name of Farrelly, R.I.P. He was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Anna Heerey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coppanagh Glebe, Co. Cavan