School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)would have big beards hanging down to their heels.
- The famine came to Ireland about ninety years ago. There were porridge houses. The people went to them for a tin of porridge.The potatoes failed with the blight. The blight came for the first time to Ireland. Potatoes were the people chief food. When they failed the people had to eat boiled weed and new turnips. The roads were black with dying people.There was a man with a horse and card for taking the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Farmer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Beagon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Tonagh, Co. Monaghan