School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)
- Location:
- Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 399
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Fleasgach
- XML Page 399
- XML “Folklore - Famine”
- XML “Games”
- XML “Famine Folklore”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- October 5th:10:38FolkloreFamineAll crops failed and oat was pulled from the roots men were paid 1d per day road making, one man died of hunger making a new in Kiltevna. Potatoes were so small that the seed was shaken instead of being stuck no foreign stuff was allowed in to the country a weed called samsogue was eaten by the people.
- Collector
- Kate Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beagh, Co. Galway
- GamesThe general game was Pole jumping with a long pole. Men would jump 15 feet high. Stone throwing and bowling on the roads dances were held when a musician would come in the locality a piper preferred.
- Famine Folklore Oct 5:10:'38Long ago the people died with hunger. There was no bread or tea. They used to make out of oaten meal and more people out of potatoes. In that time there was no oil only deal. They used to get the bog deal in every mountain. About two or(continues on next page)
