School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 285
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- During the famine times the people ate nettles. They also boiled them and made soup of them.
After ploughing the land the people used to gather roots of some weeds and boil them for food.
The people of Claremorris were buried in a pit near the fairgreen in famine times.
Where our house now is in Mount Street there was a work-house all along the present row of houses and the people used to go there. There is a grave-yard at the back where the people were buried and only plain stones mark the graves.
The people were buried near the "Esso Depot" in the fairgreen. There was a brick pit there and they threw the dead people in there. Then the pit had to be closed because if anyone went in they would get the disease.
- Collector
- Phyllis Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
