School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 287
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- Kilmoganny district was very thickly populated before the famine. Sites of houses are still pointed out.
The potatoes failed in the ground & people lived on oatmeal, weeds &c &c. Some degree of Government aid reached the district. Tickets were issued but people died 'wholesale'. No fewer than seven were buried in each grave. No coffins were used: they were buried in their clothes.
One woman gave potatoes to the pool but before doing so, she cut off the 'eyes' & sowed them so that next year she had a fine crop.
