School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Muileann an Bhata, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Sr M. Lorcán
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- A short time after the famine the Marquis of Waterford used to come to Mullinavat every week. He was a very cruel man and liked to see people suffering. When he arrived he would go into an old shed and light a fire he would then put (get) a fist of silver and put it on a red shovel and throw it down to the crowd below. The people would throw the money up and down trying to prevent their hands from being burnt. He would not allow them to put anything on their hands.Sure the Marquis and he dying he left it to his will,
That the sun should never shine on Corabally hill
My curse I tell you my boy your dirty carrion breed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Robac, Co. Chill Chainnigh
