School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)
- Location:
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Ceithearnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0060
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- (continued from previous page)Six families died in Killure during the famine. Those who lived had to eat grass and every kind of rubbish. After the famine a terrible disease called the Cholera. The people died in hundreds from this disease. About forty people died from the Cholera in this district. They were dying so fast that they had to be buried without coffins.Patrick Dillon.
Told to me by my father William Dillon, Killure, Ahascragh, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.
- I play "Blind Man's Bluff". This is how it is played:-
One person puts a blind on his face and then that person tries to catch the others and if he catches one person that person will have to put the blind on his(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcloony, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Grady
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcloony, Co. Galway
