School: Droim Caorthainn
- Location:
- Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0204, Page 120
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- On a road in the town of Killavoggy is a mound believed to be the burial place, of one of the famine victims. It is marked with a large flat stone and, the inhabitants of the district respect it greatly.A hospital was built in the townland of Grouse Lodge about a mile outside Drumkeeran and a great many fever patients went there, but very few ever came out. The old people say that, when a patient died they used not wait to lay the body out or give it a decent burial, but dragged the still warm body to a big pit where all the other bodies were, and threw it down The house is now owned by Mr. Dean who lives there. The bodies were buried in a little garden close to the hospital and it is now owned by a man named John Cullen.During the famine my great grandfather got his house built for two sacks of corn.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Goldrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leckaun, Co. Leitrim
