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School: Piltown (B.) (roll number 6189)

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Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
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Peadar Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 259

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  1. The Famine (continued)

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    During the famine the people used to eat nettles, dock-roots, cabbage, cabbage-stumps, grass and other things. After the famine a fever broke out. It was called enteric fever. A great number of people died in Tybroughney of the fever. Miss Morrisey was one woman who died of the fever. During the Famine there was a garrison of English soldiers in Bessborough Park. They got the fever too. Three of them died crossing over to England. They did not die of this hunger. A ship-load of food came into Fiddown every month. There were four hundred soldiers in the garrison. During the famine there came a very heavy snow-fall.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Thomas Cuddihy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Occupation
    Clerk
    Address
    Piltown, Co. Kilkenny