School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 321
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- This disease was almost unknown here till a few years ago. Since then I have heard of more than a dozen cases in a small area. The persons were almost all well up in years. Some were much sicker than others. in all cases recovery was very slow.
CureStrains:- Mrs Cullen, Mullaghdoo, R shandra
- In the years after the famine people would not allow the oats to ripen. The women would go out very early in the morning cut the ears of corn - dry it - and have it ground for the breakfast - and cooked in the for of porridge, I suppose, I don't know whether it was hunger made them start the crop, soon or fear that some unexpected blight might fall on it, and blast it before their eyes.
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
