School: St Mura's, Burnfoot
- Location:
- Tievebane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gáibhtheacháin
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- The Famine
Collected from my Father Pat Deeney Carnshanagh Burnfoot who herd these things from his Father. Collected by Eamon Deeney.
The Famin happened in Ireland near a hundred years ago. Food was very scarce and many people died of hunger. A man named Jipson who lived in [Christlamore?] had a boiler and made porridge in it. Every body in the parish, came every morning and some got a pint, and others got a quart of the porridge. All the potatoes rotted. Two servant men who worked to a man named Wallace would go out to dig every morning and when they would come in in the evening they would not have a saucepan of potatoes with them.
- Collector
- Eamon Deeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carnashannagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Pat Deeney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carnashannagh, Co. Donegal
