School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 320
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- (continued from previous page)peasantry had to sell their wheat, oats and barley to pay the rack rents demanded from them by the landlords. There was no work for the poor then because no one was able to pay a workman. Then the people were employed by the board of works draining and fencing the land at starvation wages. Drains were pointed out to me that were sunk five and six feet deep at sixpence per perch and stone masons wages were a shilling per day for building stone walls. There is hardly any house in good order since that time.
There was thirteen houses along the roadside from Goold's cross to the black post in Barnane.
- In the famine times the Government sent Indian meal to the poor people. They sent this meal to the poor-house and other places.
Also they gave money to people to employ the poor men. A great sickness followed the famine which was called "Cholera". It was out(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Matt Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
