School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 102
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- A mid the horrors of black 47 when the people lay dead in hundreds in the high ways and in the fields, O'Connell touched to the heart for his starving people went to London to plead before Parliment for some relief to tied them over that terrible time. He suceded in persuading the goverment to grant 10 million pounds to be used in various kinds of relief works. The numerous grass grown unfinished roads throughout the country will give some idea of how the money was expended. The road from Dalys cross through the bog and Cloon Keen to connect with the Abbert road at Kavanagh bridge was lined out and partly made out of these relief funds. There were some fifty woman as well as men working there. Each woman was forced to carry a large basket something like the baskets used on asses into which three or four spits of turf were thrown by a man on the bank and then carried to fill up hollows where turf was cut some time before.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Mulry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Galway
