School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)

Location:
Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 03_025

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  1. There is a big house in Dun Guire which was used as a hospital the time of the famine. There is a graveyard on one side of it where they used to bury the corpses.
    They used to bury them cross ways in a very wide trench without any coffins and it is said they used to bury them half alive in it. Some of the trench is to be seen yet without been closed.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Moran
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Thomas Moran
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Cartron, Co. Galway