School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 131
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- A great number of "cabhlacs" and ruined houses which are to be seen in the townlands of Drishane and Cashelane are said to have contained large families before the Famine days. It is said that in every thirty acres of land no less than eight families inhabited it. All these died of hunger, some are said to die by the fences and in a field just on the boundary of Drishane and Cashelane owned by Hegarty about one and a quarter miles from the school it is said that about forty persons died there and were eaten by the dogs.
But most of the people were buried and their burying grounds are still to be seen in my locality. In Cashelane there is a field always called "The Cill Field" which is believed to be the burying place of about two thousand people. Cart-loads of corpses were drawn there day after day by two(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Josephina Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Richard Moynihan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
