School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- (continued from previous page)inferior quality Lord Bandon afterwards sold it for a large sum.
- (continued from previous page)In the same town-land, the coins which were supposed to be used by the Danes were found in a field known as the "Liosathán". It is said that the coins were as large as half a crown, in English money.
- During the years of the famine, many people died of hunger in Dreenlomane. It is said that the people ate raw swedes and when they got a substantial meal, they died of a choking disease.A woman who had not eaten a meal of bread for four days, died of hunger in the vicinity of the barytes mines, Dreenlomane. She was dead a week, and still no attempts were made to bury her. The body was now in a state of corruption, and four neighbours, who had drunk enough whiskey, undertook to bury the body. Having procured a coffin, they shouldered the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork