School: Drom Fada (roll number 16137)
- Location:
- Drumfad, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Coluínn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 236
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- (continued from previous page)Kerrykeel to Portsalon was rolled for the first time.When people went to set their potatoes they made drills with a spade. Most of the people had to take out the manure in creels. They put in the potatoes into the drills before they put in the manure. They fed animals with whins dandelions, and nettles.A lot of people died at the time of the famine. They were often found lying along the roads dead. The people ate a lot of dulse and sloak. There was a disease after the famine.In the year 1859 there were bad crops and the Government gave a certain amount of meal to every man for his wife and family.
- Collector
- Florence Mc Collum
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carran Lower and Upper, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Bernard Price
- Gender
- Male
