School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 288
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- Famine Times
During the famine times the people had nothing to eat. They even found it hard to get a turnip. They also ate yellow meal porridge and prasan (oatmeal and water). (They) All their vegetables rotted in the ground all over the Co. Mayo especially. The government sent out the meal for the porridge and they also supplied them with free milk. After the famine hundreds died with a disease called the Cholera.
Jennie Burns 13 years
Convent Road
Claremorris
- Collector
- Jennie Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
