School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- An Sonnach Mór, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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- (continued from previous page)"groans" the next year and he had a good crop. There was a wonderful crop in '45 and another in '48
There was a Slip Coffin for every two or three townsland. The bottom used to fall out of it and the corpse drop down into the grave. The coffin was left on the grave of the last person buried so that when next wanted, it could be easily found.
In Drumlegga parish of Cloone there was a garden and the people cut sods in that garden and built them across their doors to keep the dogs from eating their bodies when they died.
After the famine the people got Black Champions and Scotch downs from Scotland.
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
