School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 147
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- (continued from previous page)used to come to the funerals called hoaschers. They used to wail after the corpse from the house to the graveside. After the black fever a great famine broke out. No crops grew. The people had to live on Indian meal. The people had not even milk to use with the Indian porridge. The potatoes failed and the oat crop took the blight and the wheat took smut around this district. The people gathered any wee potatoes that they could get, over the ground which they preserved for seed the following year.
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- Collector
- Rose Bracken
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Breaclainn Bheag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Mary Bracken
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Breaclainn Bheag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
