School: Carrigabruise
- Location:
- Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mc Enrae
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- (continued from previous page)in exchange for a bag of meal. Decent women with young families walked about from door to door in search of food after falling from weakness before reaching the door. I have never heard of any persons having died from cholera nor any of the other awful diseases arising out of the famine, around here. It is said, however, that the people ate frogs, rats, mice, grass, donkeys and dogs to keep them alive.
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- Collector
- Celia Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stramatt, Co. Cavan