School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 154
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- (continued from previous page)machinery. The flax was first cut by "meitheals" of men and women. My grandmother said that she was often at one of those "flax meitheals".
- About seventy years ago a great epidemic broke out in this locality. It was a disease in the throat like the Diptheria and was called "Cunzee" by the old people. It caused many deaths in my townland and my mother told me that in one of her neighbour's houses six children died in a fortnight. There was no cure for it except boiling herbs which old women picked.
- Collector
- Mary Josephina Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Driseán, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs E. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- An Driseán, Co. Chorcaí
