School: Gurteen, Ballymahon
- Location:
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: F. Ó Murchadha
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- When any of the people died the neighbours of this townland carried the corpse to the next townland & so on till they came to the graveyard & in some cases they were not able to reach it. There are the ruins of seven houses in my district namely, Hanley's, McGrath's, Shanley's Fanning's, Skelly's, Jordan's, & McArdle's. These places were very thickly populated at this time. People had no potatoes for the next year. They had to eat Indian stirabout instead of potatoes.
- Collector
- Teresa Gerety
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Gerety
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford