School: Lorrha (B.) (roll number 600)
- Location:
- Lorrha, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cróinín
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- (continued from previous page)evicted from their houses by those cruel tyrants of landlords. The had to dwell in the mountains and bogs. They heard mass in remote places. The priests had to say mass on rocks and there were many Mass Rocks in this district.
At the time of the famine this parish was thickly populated. The reason of the famine was that the potatoes blackened and the were the principle food of the people. They were evicted and they were starving on the roadside. All the people emigrated to America.Michael O' Meara
Blakefield
Lorrha
Birrinformant Michael O' Meara Snr aged 70- Collector
- Mícheal Ó Meadhra
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blakefield, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael O' Meara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Blakefield, Co. Tipperary