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 156
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- Long ago during the famine there were special houses in which they stored meal. They also kept a big pot in the house in which they used boil the meal. Certain people were in charge of these houses and used give the meal to the people that used come for it. One day a man having eaten too quickly got choked and died immediately. Another man ate an overdose of it and also died. He was buried in the dyke of the road. One of these houses was in the neighbourhood of Lowertown.
- Collector
- Mary Roycroft
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs Scofield
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- In the year 1918 a great epidemic swept the whole country. It followed the war. Many people both young and old died of it in this locality.
- Collector
- Mary Roycroft
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Thomas Roycroft
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- About eighty years ago or so a ship whose name was the "Lady Charlet" was wrecked off the coast(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Roycroft
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Thomas Roycroft
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
