School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)When he had eaten it, he arose and after thanking and blessing the woman, he went outside. In an hour's time the woman went out for water and there she saw the old man stretched dead a few yards from her house. She was horrified. Then she said she would not have his body there to be eaten by dogs. She got apiece of pointed stick and made grave for him. She put the body into it and then returned to her home. After that day the kind hearted woman never wanted while the famine lasted.
- Collector
- Eily Judge
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Henry Judge
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Crowagh or Dunneill Mountain, Co. Sligo
