School: N. Colmcille, Buncrana (roll number 16752)
- Location:
- Bun Cranncha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1110, Page 366
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- (continued from previous page)a piece of oaten bread in their pocket when they would be going a lonely place or going through a hill for fear the hunger grass would come upon them. The hunger grass was a hunger that would come on a person on certain parts of places and he would die with hunger. No matter how much a person would eat before he left the house if the hunger grass would come on him it would be no use to him except he had a bit of bread with him. In olden times the people only got tea at Christmas and at Halloweve and this was thought a great threat. Tea was first used in this district about seventy years ago.
- Collector
- Anton Mac Donnchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Willie Gill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70