School: Cluain Tuirc (B.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conchobhair
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- There was once a woman who had four sons in the Famine times. They were crying with hunger. She put down a pot with stones in it and told them to go to bed and she would waken them for supper. One of them got up and lifted a stone to eat it. The stone fell back and broke the pot. Next day there was Indian meal given out. She tried to make porridge in a jar. When it began to boil it bubbled and leaped and scalded her and the children. She put a sheet about her and the children got frightened. They told neighbours that their mother was a ghost. They came and eat the porridge and left none for the children.
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- Informant
- James Mc Weeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Cloonclivvy, Co. Leitrim
