School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fleming
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 087
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- (continued from previous page)the people were too weak to do so.
It was an every day scene to see four men staggering with a coffin on their shoulders to the graveyard.
Before the "Workhouse Building" was commenced in Bailieborough, a hospital was opened at the place where Mr. Charles Hurricane now lives, and the old people say they saw seventy or eighty persons lying dead or dying in a poorly enclosed shed there.
For a few years the Government was not very helpful, but they sent supplies of Indian meal to selected houses in each district, which was called a "Sturabout Station", and the meal was made into porridge, a station was at the house of Mr. Thomas Ruske, Drumacarrow Lodge.
After 1850, other varities of potatoes were introduced, and given out by the Government at 1/6 per stone.
Relief works were started and this relieved the people to some extent, under these schemes, the Main Road from Bailieboro'. to Virginia was made.
- Collector
- Emrys Roundtree
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Michael Traynor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Togher, Co. Cavan
