School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 10_010
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Misfortunes long ago.6-12-37.
Long ago the year of the famine there was a disease called the Black Fever.The people were dying so quickly that they could hold no wakes or funerals .They were not buried in any right churchyard only buried in their own land a good piece from the house.Over the grave they piled a large heap of stones which are still visible.
It was a great misfortune to see father and mother taken from young children to struggle for existence.After that the people had nothing hardly.They used go out and dig the soil looking for potatoes .There was also a house lit on a man that time ii Reighnamana.At the same time the landlord used put the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hanora Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Drumandoora, Co. Clare
