School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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Misfortune.
A famine came to Ireland about a hundred years ago.All the crops faded on the people and the began to feel hungry.Every day people were dying by ditches out on the open fields an on public roads.
While these were alive the used eat grass and thistles and nettles .Some of them were not buried at all and more were buried in the mountains.When on of the family would die all of them used nearly go together .This held on for two years and nearly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Acres, Co. Clare
