School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)
- Location:
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr Adrian
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0299
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)covered with lime.
The blight came on by nature, just as it comes every year. The potatoes decayed in the ground, and also in the pits, but the second year they decayed in the ground only because there were none left to put into the pits. A poet said,
"Bhí na gas lobhta lá Lugnasa
Mar a bhéadh faoi Samhain."
Relief for the famien came when it was too late, when thousands of people had died, in the roadside, in the fields and in the cabins. But before the famine (about 1820 a.d.) hundreds died of Cholera.
- Informant
- Michael Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuscarrick, Co. Galway
