School: O'Brennan, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí
- Location:
- An Tóin Riabhach Íochtarach, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 429
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- Sheila Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Ré Mhór, Co. Chiarraí
- Ml. Reidy (Kilmore Rathanny) says :-
"Fathers were sitting on the ditches watching their rotting potatoes. Owing to the weakness of the people several of them died of a sickness called the black death and bowel complaint. Thousands died. They had no coffins only boxes & each of the boxes was used for 3 or 4 corpses. The meal which they used acted like poison on already weakened stomachs".
