School: Cill Rosanta (C.), Coill Mhic Thomáisín
- Location:
- Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0648, Page 19
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- (continued from previous page)ground were eaten raw and he must confess to seeing men eating grass of the fields. In addition to the local starving people flocks of men came from West Cork and Kerry and died by the roadside. he saw crowds in Hennebery's field by the old graveyard, fed by kind neighbours from their scanty supper and the same on the old road above the cross leading to Comeragh. He saw a big deep and wide grave in the old graveyard to receive their dead bodies, he saw no more, so let him close and utter a fervent prayer for their souls. He can only remember three of the Kerrymen, Thadg Murphy of Boulatin and the two Sullivans who lived up in Cutteen.
- Collector
- Mary Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Mahon Bridge, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Patrick Power
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 58
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Mahon Bridge, Co. Waterford
