School: Tullyvin
- Location:
- Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Feeney
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- One Sunday in the year of the famine the people in this district went to a meeting in Lavey.
When they were leaving the potatoes were very green and healthy and when they returned home in the evening there was not a green potato stalk to be seen. This was caused by the blight.
The landlords had men employed pulling turnips for twopence a day. There were men over the men pulling the turnips called gangers. The gangers got ninepence a day. They had a terrible job keeping the men pulling the turnips from eating them.
There was a man in Cootehill who had an ass and cart and his job was carting the dead bodies from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Gerard O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumnagran, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Paddy Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumnagran, Co. Cavan
