School: Duleek (C.) (roll number 3114)

Location:
Duleek, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchadha
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0683, Page 085

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0683, Page 085

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Duleek (C.)
  2. XML Page 085
  3. XML “Story of the Famine”

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

  1. On a certain night of this famine period when the people of this locality walked miles + miles in search of food a certain man came to the house of another man named Fisher. This man Fisher was a small old withered man with white hair.
    The stranger asked Fisher for help and the latter asked him in + told him he would make him his servant. a few days later the small old man dies. His nephew came over from the East. He was so heart, broken over the death of the old man and he did not notice the valuable article in the house. However, he had to seee the place + there was little use he thought in noticing them.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English