School: Termonfeckin (roll number 16209)
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)worths, at that time as they could not afford any more for it.
There is a road running through North Louth, called the Famine Rd. It is so called because during the famine, the men were paid twopence or threepence a day, for making it.
- In north Louth the famine was very great. At a point at Carlingford known as Hospital Point there was a hospital where a vessel of porridge was given to all those who called during the famine years.
- In nort Louth, during the famine times, at a place now called Hospital Point, there stood a hospital, and any person who come to it was given a vessel of porridge.
- Collector
- Brigid Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leabby Cross, Co. Louth
