School: Drumandoora N.S. (roll number 12123)
- Location:
- Drumandoora, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Liam Mac Aodhaire Liam Airley
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592F, Page 06_031
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31st May 1938
Folklore. The Famine.
Among all the evils in Ireland long ago the Famine was the worst of all ,it killed and starved most of the people.The fever wiped out the most of them.The poor people were to be seen dying by the ditches with starvation and it is said that they were like walking skeletons and even ate rats with severe hunger.the cause of the feavor was that the people died in very large numbers that the could not be properly burried and many lay by the roadsid and field where they died .it lasted about ten years but the last five years left Ireland in a dreadful state.
- Collector
- Peter Cunningham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killanena, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Tina Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killanena, Co. Clare
