School: Anglesboro (C.), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 10263)
- Location:
- Anglesborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhonnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0513, Page 474
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- (continued from previous page)when he got to his destination he was told that the supply was exhausted so he came back to his mother with an empty bag. They had to live on watercress and some turnips that a neighbour gave them. She lived to be an old woman.
She told Mrs Cleary that the people died so quickly during the famine that one coffin used to do several of them. In it a corpse was taken to the church yard, where its burden was deposited.Then it was taken back for the next and so on. The poor people who attended the burials were so weak from hunger that they could scarcely cover the graves.
- Informant
- Mrs Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Anglesborough, Co. Limerick
