School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- An Scairt, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)named Mr Stackpoole. The present owner is Mr Herlihy who bought it recently.Mr Stanard built this (oble) obelish over a famous greyhound which he had long ago.
Story.In the years of the famine there lived a rich man in Derryvillane named Mr Delaney. Every year he used to plant a lot of turnips. In the time of the famine he used to send two men into each field to mind the turnips lest the poor people who had very little food might steal them.There was a poor man living nearby and he had a wife and eight children and they were dying with the hunger. Then the man went into the field to get a turnip but the men saw him. They told their master and he was taken before the court and the poor man got six months prison. His wife and children were left die in their house without anybody to take care of them.Philomena Fox
Age 14 yrs.Mr John Burke, Ballinahalisk, Rockmills
Age 46 yrs.
- Collector
- Philomena Fox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Teallach Eathach, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Michael Ahearne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Baile Átha an Mhaide, Co. Chorcaí
