School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)

Location:
Lyre, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 164

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    Then the water was squeezed out of it and ate the remainder of it with salt. Some people used make stag cakes of the black potatoes. The poor people that died of hungar that time were buried in fields, because their people were too poor to take them to a grave yard. There are only a few of those kinds of grave yards in this district, one is in Coolremore in Denis Connor's land and one near Eugene Readon's house in the mountain.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eilís Ní Shúilleabháin
    Gender
    Female