School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Owning, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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- (continued from previous page)roads of Owning there is a big tree surrounded with stones and it is called the bulk. During the famine times the Government relived the people by giving them porridge. On the bulk it was distributed every day.
It is said that some of the people were never interred but they were left on the side of the road and in the fields as they died.
At the present time the blight came on the potatoes the people would not be as badly off because they do not depend so much on potatoes for food.- Collector
- Evelyn Blackmore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmanahin, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Henry Blackmore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilmanahin, Co. Kilkenny