School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)
- Location:
- Derrylehan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 332
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- In the period immediately after the great famine indian meal porridge was distributed to the people. A very large metal boiler was set up beside Stonepark house in the townland of Gortaderry in this district. People from miles around came with cans or vessels to get a share everyday. Two or three men were in charge of it. Stone-breaking as relief work went on in the same place - even women worked at this. The remains of some of the heaps of stones are still there. The spot where the boiler was fixed is to be seen still but the boiler was broken up by the people bit by bit. Ghosts or fairies were supposed to haunt this place later as lights were often seen through the fields. The Famine was caused by the failure of the potato crop in 1846. The old people used to say there was frost on 23rd June and it cut all the stalks away. The blight came about that day month. It was in the form of a smur of rain.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cíaráin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lyle, Co. Sligo
