School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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- When the potato crop failed in 1846-'47 the people were dying by the side of the road for the want of food.
They were eating the turnips off the gardens and they had not any Indian meal stir about.
A man of the Moroney's who lived in the Ballard Road had a contract for burying these people who had a disease called "Cholera".
He used to bring these people with his mule and cart to the graveyard and if the man had no time in the night he would leave them outside the door until morning and then he would bring them over to the graveyard and bury them.
The undertaker Thady Donnellan used to make a big box and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Mc Kenzie
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Cornelius Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare