School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)food for the people. This meal came from America.
When the people used to eat a piece of oatmeal cake they used to faint when they would have it eaten. The work in the roads relieved the famine. Five were found dead about a mile from the town of Miltown in the Ballard road. - In the famine year the Atlantic Hotel in Spanish Point was full of poor people who were called paupers; also Aranview in Fintra was full of them.
There was a fever Hospital in Parknalassa in the Mullagh road in Miltown Malbay where Mr. Hanrahan now lives.
The people were dying so(continues on next page)- Collector
- Martin Morrissey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Morrissey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Breaffy North, Co. Clare