School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)knows quite a few of Thornton's songs.
- During the famine the food the people got was Indian meal. Every day a boiler was filled with Indian meal, and it was boiled, and the people from all round the district came in for the full of a three-quart gallon. My great-grandmother was living in this town, during the famine, but her son and two daughters had to emigrate to America.
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- Collector
- Willie Stephens
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- David Soden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan