School: Castleterra
- Location:
- Castleterra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Ciosóig
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- Famine Times
Written by Maureen O'Reilly Drumenara Laragh Cavan
Collected from Mrs O'Reilly Drumenara Laragh Cavan
During the famine times the people were very poor. They potatoes decayed in the ground. They man worked for threepence and fourpence a day. There was a boiler erected in Laragh. There was porridge made in it and given out to the poor the amount varied according to the size of the family- Collector
- Maureen O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumnanarragh, Co. Cavan
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- Mrs O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumnanarragh, Co. Cavan