School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 366
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- This district was very thickly populated before the great famine which had a great effect on it. The people died in vast numbers along the road-sides and in the houses. Some of them perished from cold and hunger, but most of all from the famine fever. Hundreds of dead bodies were strewn along the road sides for a few days and then some charitable men came - along and carried the uncoffined bodies on carts to the grave - sides.
The people used to eat potatoes and Indian meal. Sometimes they used to have milk to drink with it. But in the year '47 the potatoes were blighted when the stalks were beginning to grow. The people had no potatoes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Leyland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
