School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 290
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- (continued from previous page)quickly that a man took the contract to bury them in loads every day.
It is said that he had 3)6 for every corpse he buried.
The coffins they had were made of rough timber and there was no mounting in them.
The way they used to bury them was - they used to dig a big hole and put four or five coffins into it and cover them over lightly with clay.
When the poor people were in the Atlantic Hotel there was not a periwinkle or a limpet left in the strand but they picked.
Some of them used not boil them at all they used to eat them uncooked.
By the time the famine was over in this parish very few survived it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Morrissey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Morrissey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Breaffy North, Co. Clare
