School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)nor any food. Those people had to eat the grass like the dumb beasts of the field. Around their mouths the green juice was always visible. After a time the Government sent out free Indian meal. Their was a house in Woodfield named Martin's and the people crowded to it on certain days for this food.
Some of the Irish went away to a foreign land but the others were compelled to stay at home and perish by the famine fever. There was a very small population in Ireland after that great trouble.
Some of the old people of to-day can mark out the ruins of the old houses where the Indian meal was sold. Many a time the old people talk about those troubled days(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Leyland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
