School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)travelled all the way from Achill in search of food, died on the road-side, outside Prison School. He was waked and coffined there. His coffin was a poor one.
Others migrated to America and died on the voyage as a result of the hard-ships, they suffered from hunger before leaving home. The famine was followed bu a plague which caused many thousands of deaths.- Collector
- Patrick James Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Cregg, Co. Mayo