School: Muine Chonnalláin B.
- Location:
- Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Lochnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 339
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- (continued from previous page)corpse was let into grave and the coffin was brought back to bury another person. Even the well of people had to live on "Indian meal gruel, which was not too bad if they had enough of it, but many a time they had to do with half enough. There is a story told about a man not far from this place who was dying with hunger. He sent his son out to find some food for him. The boy went out and crossed the mountain to a place where he (crossed) knew he would get some food. He got the food and was returning home when he lay down in a glen now known as Glen Easkey and died there from the long fast. The people went out in search of him and when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Muldoon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thady Muldoon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
