School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Táite an tSléibhe, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 267
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- (continued from previous page)was a making a bad month came and men could not work and many people died of hunger.
- When there was no roads long ago the people cut a tree and let it fall across a river. Then they walked across it. They used to dance at cross-rads long ago.
They worked on roads in the time of the famine at the rate of four pence a day. The people brought cans of porridge with them. The local roads are known as bye-roads.
Long ago there was no road from Aghabog church to the bog cross. It was a big big. Turf was cut down on both sides of the now known road. The road(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- An Chailleach, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Informant
- Pat Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Carn, Co. Mhuineacháin
