School: Seosamh Naomhtha (roll number 16640)
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Bráthair Naiti
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 162
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- (continued from previous page)people were being buried everywhere. Some of those who were buried were only dying!During the Famine the Clergy got a big share of Indian meal but they did not divide it out until it was rotten.After the Famine a plague of Cholera broke out in the town. The fever hospital, which was very small, was where the Donegal Railway Station is now. When the railway was constructed it was used as a store.
- In Donegal during the Famine the starving people were offered food if they turned Protestant. A man named Kerrigan did so and as a reward he got a bag of meal.In the Ballyshannon district a great number of people died of small-pox. Those who died were interred in one large grave.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Stewart
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Stewart
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
