School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- (continued from previous page)them at the back of ditches and planted trees over them. Some of the trees are there yet and others of them fell and the roots would come too and you would see the dead bodies under the roots. There was a Famine in Ireland long ago nearly all the animals and people died with hunger. The people had to go as far as Dublin for tea and sugar and other things and it had to do them twelve months at least all the potatoes and plants rotted in the ground and everything went to loss.
- Collector
- Christena O Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Foalies, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- B. Fitzpatrick
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
