School: Lugnaskeehan (roll number 6562)
- Location:
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Eibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 472
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- During the years of 1846 and 1847 the people of this district had nothing to eat except raw turnips and they too grew scarce and many of the people ate grass. The people were dying in dozens along the road. There is a story of an old woman in the parish of Kilargue who had no home of her own. She went about begging and when the Famine began people could not afford to give her anything; she lived in a cave in a rock which was called "Susan's Den" and one morning she was found dead in the cave and her two children asleep beside her.There were also many people found dead along the roads who did not belong to this part of the country at all. The people were dying in such numbers that there were no wakes or funerals. The bodies were carried to the grave as soon as they were found and often five and six people were buried(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
