School: Cill Mhuire (roll number 8139)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ruairc
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- The Famine. 14/6/1938.
In the year 1846 and 1847 the potatoe crop failed, on which the people of Ireland depended mostly. About one million died and a million emigrated.
Some of the people had to eat nettles, dock leaves, and Indian meal to prevent the hunger. When the people would die, they were thrown into a pit without a coffin. Where "Rathmoyle Cemetry" is to-day, there was a famine pit in it. When graves are being dug, bones are found in it, and people say, that those are the bones of the people who died during the famine.
- Informant
- Mrs Geraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathmoyle, Co. Roscommon
