School: Naomh Gertrude (Clochar Loreto)
- Location:
- Scartlea, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán M. Ní Bhuachalla
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“The Famine began in the year 1947...”
(continued from previous page)others died with cold and hunger in houses and in fields by the roadsides. The population reduced to nothing. Great giant men fell to skeletons with the hunger.
Here and there by the ditches you would see the corpses of people. All day long carts were moving towards the graveyards. The Land Lord should get every third stone of oats that grew on the land, and that was all shipped off to England.- Informant
- Paddy Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 24
- Occupation
- Painter
- Address
- Faghcullia, Co. Kerry