School: Coillte Clochair (C.) (roll number 2364)
- Location:
- Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 116
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- (continued from previous page)anything smaller. She used to leave some on a basket that they would not be able to eat at dinner time and in the morning they would be all eaten. One day a woman came in and asked her had they much potatoes and she said that they had a lot. But when we rise every morning the potatoes that we leave on the basket are all eaten. "O" said she if you shake salt on them, nothing will go near them, she did so and nothing went near them. But at once the heap of potatoes got small and they died for the want of food. The people died in hundreds and they were so poor that had no money to buy coffins so they got one with a door on the bottom of it and they used to put the corpse in it and let them down in the grave and bring home the coffin.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Leonard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Agho, Co. Fermanagh
- Informant
- Tommy Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Ross, Co. Fermanagh
