School: Cill Críosta
- Location:
- Kilchreest, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0035, Page 0280
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An Drochshaol
“Even in our own district there are many disastrous stories to be heard from the old people who heard them from people who lived during the famine . . .”
Even in our own district there are many disastrous stories to be heard from the old people who heard them from people who lived during the famine days.Many and many a hunger stricken body was carried several miles across the mountains to be interred in Derrybrien graveyard. The women were usually the chief mourners in those distressing periods they even had to dig the graves.The chief food of the people was oaten bread and "gruel" which consisted in oat meal boiled in water now called porridge but in a more solid form.A man who was on his way to Loughrea with a load of hay was found dead on the side of the Bailí boreen by a neighbour named Martin, this neighbour entombed him in Shiel's sandpit. It is said that his mouth was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mena Fallon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raheen Oughter, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Raheen Oughter, Co. Galway