School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Tír Eiltín, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0339, Page 094
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- (continued from previous page)the gloom deepened and the horrors were greater still. The famine effected my native country very severely : people died in the fields: they did in the workhouses were fever following famine did what famine was unable to do. My father often relates a story which he heard about an afflicted father who took the dead bodies of his seven children to the graveyard alone and there buried them as funerals ceased to be attended. In this locality I have heard of a case where twelve corpses were left in a certain house and not buried atall but were eaten by rats and dogs. Coffins became a luxury and in Skibbereen and elsewhere(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan O' Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chúil Dorcha, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Eugene O' Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- An Chúil Dorcha, Co. Chorcaí
