School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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- (continued from previous page)off the horse. When the priest saw that he asked Jimmy why he did that and he said he was going to run it barefooted and the horse would do the same and the priest would not agree to him.
- In the famine years a good deal of the people around here died of hunger. The year before the famine there were very good potatoes and the people did not mind them. In the place where John Colreavy of Lear lives now the man of that house had a wonderful supply of them the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lear, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Colreavy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Lear, Co. Leitrim