School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- In the time of the famine there was a road made in Bollinhoe, in the Barony of Carra. The people who worked on it were very poor and they got bad pay. They lived on yellow meal and on that account the road was called the yellow road. A little traffic goes on it now but it is a bad road.
- Collector
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rush Hill, Co. Mayo