School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 239
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- (continued from previous page)The famine time was the time when the crops(i.e. potatoes) did not grow, and that starvation and sickness came over the people. The rich people had nothing to eat unless porridge made out of meal, and all the wild animals they could kill. Poorer people had nothing to eat unless wild animals, wild birds and rats and all they could pick up to keep themselves alive. A lot of people left the country after the famine came. A lot of people died of starvation and sickness. People had potatoes in pits and they rotted. People had drills of potatoes in the fields and the blight came on them and they rotted in the ground at once.
- Collector
- Frank Moyna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Frank Moyna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
