School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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   “Beyond in Doon - near the lough - there was a poor beggerwoman - she took the fever...”

   

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   on her - no one had - for everyone was sick.
   Well, she got better of the fever, and got up, and went on her begging rounds again. Maybe if she had attendance she'd have died.

   

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   “The "line" and the other new road at the back of our house in Doon Boyle were blocked out for relief work in famine times.”

   

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   The "line" and the other new road at the back of our house in Doon Boyle were blocked out for relief work in famine times. There was a poor woman with a baby working, breaking the stones. Well she died of the fever, or the hunger, sitting at work on the heap, and when she was found the baby was drinking at her breast - the breast of the dead starved woman.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Gorman

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Jamestown, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mrs Hunt

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Jamestown, Co. Leitrim