School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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- (continued from previous page)throw out your dead" and the dead were thrown out through the windows. When the people got the descease they vomited up grey watery stuff and who ever was near took the descease. My father told me he head his father saying that half the people during the famine were buried alive. There was one man who was alive when they were burying him. He had one knee cocked up and one of the warders struck him on the knee. All the time he bore the pain and when the warders went off he got up and went home.
It is said the year after the famine the potatoes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- C. Owens
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Christy Owens
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
