School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 366
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- A man whose name was Mr Cotter who lived in Coosheen had nothing to eat and was dying of starvation. He crawled on his face and hands to Schull to get something to eat. When he arrived in Schull all he could get was a hard crust of bread. He then started for home but when he was about a mile from the town he died. It was the hard crust of the bread that choked him. There is another story about a man who was dying on the roadside. There was a man going around with a horse and car taking up the dead bodies. The man came to the dying man, and thought he was dead and he threw him in the car. When he was burying the bodies he put the dying body in also. He hit the bodies with a shovel to pack them and when he struck the dying man he groaned. The man then took him out of the grave and took him to the Workhouse and he recovered in a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mc Farlane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skull, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr John Cole
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Skull, Co. Cork
