School: Lisnagirl (2)
- Location:
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Thaicnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 367
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- (continued from previous page)In Andy Clarkes Granacunia relief meal was also given. Paddy Reilly's father Greaghadusson was threshing in Hueston's the time of the famine and he got a plate of turnips and salt for his dinner. Kate Flynn Lisnagirl says that you would wash a tub of potatoes and wouldn't get a dinner out of it they were so black.Many of the poor people of the district went to live in the Poor Houses where they died within a few days. The old people say that many times a day coffins were seen going on donkeys' carts to the graveyards from the Poor House in Bailieboro. The Government gave relief money that time to make the Greaghadusson and Lisnagirl roads but the people who worked on them only got four pence a day and support themselves.
- Collector
- Nioclás Mag Gabhann
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Caith Bean Uí Fhloinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Eoghan Ó Doláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Padraic Mag Gabhánn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gola, Co. Cavan
