School: Tairbeart (C.)
- Location:
- Tarbert, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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- The horrors of the Great Famine 1846-47 are still told by our firesides.
A blight came in the potatoes and the crops failed all over. The poor people were most stricken for they had no money to buy anything in our district.
The people ate raw turnips, weeds and sea weed. They boiled the weeds in salt and they ate nothing with the weed. They rooted up the rotten potatoes which were blighted in the gardens. This caused fever. The year after the blight they had no seed to set potatoes.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Philomena Mc Namara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygoghlan, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- James Mc Namra
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballygoghlan, Co. Limerick