School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 014
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- (continued from previous page)year before the famine. So much that they were thrown into the ditch along the field and when the year of the famine came, the people of that house were out in the ditches trying to gather up the potatoes which they had thrown out the year before.A poor woman came to a woman in Lear called Mrs Duignan and asked her for a charity. The woman of the house went out to the garden and brought in a head of cabbage to her. The poor woman was so hungry that she she sat down and ate the cabbage raw.In another house in Lear called Duignans, when the potatoes were bad, the people of that house used to go out and gather the "poidin[?] and bring them into the house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lear, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Colreavy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Lear, Co. Leitrim
