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School: Cloughjordan (C.) (roll number 11544)

Location:
Cloghjordan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Eibhlin, Bean Uí Sceacháin
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    to remedy the disease by the use of washing soda and Bluestone in the proportions 1/3 washing soda to 2/3 Bluestone.
    We should never depend on the one food or if we do it is sure to fail. As the people long ago depended on the potato crop and it failed, they starved then took diseases and died.
    Kathleen Guest
    Coolnagower
    Cloughjordan
    Name. John Guest
    Occupation. Farmer
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Guest
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coolnagrower, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Guest
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer