School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)
- Location:
- Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Ambrose Madders
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- (continued from previous page)women used to come and gather it up and so they used to have a little more meal. There was also in Kilmeaden, a house where all the families of Kilmeaden used to go and each family got one quart of yellow meal. In the time of the Famine there was, in Ballyduff, a few trees where the people used to hold wakes in the fields. They used to do this for they could not wake them in houses because there were too many people to be waked. This was on account of so many dying of hunger.
- In the year 1847 the main food of the people was potatoes and salt. In the year 1845 the blight came on the potatoes. The blight came like a thick fog. At last they began to rot. When the time(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Denis Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- John Keane
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford