School: Islandanny (roll number 5748/9)
- Location:
- Rea, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chatháin
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- (continued from previous page)odour of the Blight. The farmers had to fall back on turnips as their chief food and when the turnips were exhausted they had to depend on milk.
The sour milk was boiled and the curds eaten - it being the only solid food they could lay hands on.
The labouring class were not so lucky, they had neither turnips nor milk. Their food consisted of cabbage stamps, nettles or any green herbs they could lay hands on.- Collector
- Miss O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rea, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Duagh, Co. Kerry