School: Ladhar (B.), Bán-Tír (roll number 3269)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Halladáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 412
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- There is a chóll about near Neard where people were buried in the time of the famine. I heard a woman came along up towards it one day and her dead child in her arms. She sat down on the ditch to rest, and died there herself. There used to be a big coffin ready at the cross-roads for whoever wanted it next. There were hinges and a bolt in the bottom of it and when they'd take the corpse to the cóll, they'd pull the bolt and let the corpse drop into the grave, and bring back the coffin to the cross again.
The peoples' mouths used be green and swollen from eating prarreach churdhe [?] and nettles.
- Collector
- John Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Denis Bowler
- Gender
- Male
