School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 127
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- (continued from previous page)that but they closed it back again and it never was disturbed afterwards.
- The year of the Bad times.
The year of the famine was always referred to by the old people as the year of the bad times.
Often on a Winters night when ramblers sat round the fire they used tell many heart rending stories of want and hunger, that their parents and others suffered. One woman a Mrs Celia McLoughlin, said she had not a bite of any kind of food nor a "sup" for her child who was crying with hunger only the chick-weed that grew on the thatch of her house, and water.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon
