School: Urhan (B.) (roll number 12259)
- Location:
- Urhin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0275, Page 173
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- The Famine started in the year 1845. The people were very poor. The people that had turnips used to eat them and other people used boil nettles and put a drop of milk through them. The English used not give any food to them. There was a woman in Coulagh, her name was Maire Ní Leamhna. Her son died and she had no one to bury him. He was dead in the house for three days. She used be looking at the Cillíneach to see if anyone would be burying people there. One day she saw a funeral below and she put the boy across her shoulder and brought him down and they buried him. They used shake hay down on the body and then throw earth down on that. There was a man buried in the Comar to the west of our house. He was taking a rest(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coulagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mícheál Ó Cróinín
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coulagh, Co. Cork
