School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 394
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- Only a few people died in Lecamy in the time of the famine. In the time of the famine the people pulled grass and "praiseac," boiled it and ate it. There is a place along the road between Lecamy and Moville near a water tank on the roadside, which is called Tull na Praiseach. Men used to work planting trees for Mr. Nicholson, landlord of Leitrim and Falmore, for 4 1/2 D. a day. He gave them their meals free. Others worked for him for a shilling a day to pay the rent, but they had to eat at home. There were two women who used to go round spinning yarn in the houses and they got turnips for food. There was a man called Shinoor who napped stones for his food on Shinoor Bray, which lies between Lecamy and Falmore. After the famine the people used Indian meal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Rose Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Patrick Mac Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
