School: Árd-Fhearta
- Location:
- Ardfert, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tomás Ua Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0414, Page 040
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- From Clahane's public house to the old cathedral there were thirty or forty houses before the famine and there are only two or three there now. There was an old woman called Peg Hoare living in Ardfert twenty or thirty years ago. She was married to a man called Divane. When the famine came they had to go begging. The husband got a disease called cholera. Peg got some meal in a house and she made some gruel out of the meal for him. when she came out of the house he was dead. No one would take the corpse to a graveyard because the disease was contagious. She lifted the corpse on her shoulders and walked two miles with it to a graveyard. Two men dug a grave for her husband and she buried him herself.
- Collector
- Tommy Nunan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commons East, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Nunan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Commons East, Co. Kerry
