School: Tullyvin
- Location:
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Feeney
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- During the Famine times there was a woman living in Lappin called the "Leg Woman" which was a nick name for her.
During 1847 her family was starving so one morning she set out to Dublin for Government relief. She brought a puck bag and she got half a hundred weight of Indian meal which she carried home on her back.
She arrived home in time to make the porridge for the supper & so relieved her starving family.
(A hundred weight bag is called a puck bag in this locality.)- Collector
- Michael Joseph Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corick, Co. Cavan