School: Árd Ailinne (Mount Allen) (roll number 13143)
- Location:
- Mountallen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Loingsigh
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A Story about the Famine days
Many stories are told about the famine days in this district and about many people who died of starvation-tion.
In the downland of Greaghna-leva a woman and her child died. One night a man named Michael Wynne was passing by a river near the dead woman home. He heard a lonely cry and he saw this woman washing the child in the river.- Informant
- Mr Thomas Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Cuilbalkeen, Co. Roscommon