School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Freemount, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Breathnach
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0366, Page 057
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Many old people who are now dead often referred to the famine of 1846-47. People died by the roadside with hunger and there were so many deaths every day that it was impossible to get coffins for all, hence it was that the corpses were buried without coffins, and often a great many corpses were interred in the same grave.
The district was then very thickly populated. Houses were to be seen everywhere but when the dread days were passed all those houses fell into ruins, and to-day traces of them can still be pointed out.
At that time the people depended for their support on the potato crop. There was plenty(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Nunan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- David Nunan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnascregga, Co. Cork
