School: Crois Bhóthar
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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- My aunt, Mrs. Naughton who lives in Castlegrove and is about seventy years of age said that her grandmother remembered the Famine.
Her grandmother's family were the only ones in the village who had a crop of oats. When they would be going to Tuam to pay the rent with some of it, starved men who had nothing to eat would tear the bags with their teeth and eat the oats like an animal.
The people who had potatoes sown which decayed made a dish out of them called "Boxtie."
Any animal found dead was eaten. The beggars going the road had their mouths and lips all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Naughton
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
