School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Aodán
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- (continued from previous page)on the potatoes and they had only milk. The people were dying of hunger. It was often a family died one after another. There were many families buried in the same grave. Then after a long time they got food from the English.
Written by, Pattie Loughnane,
Broke Stret,
Thurles.
Told by, Mrs Loughnane,
Do. - 9. The famine time in Ireland was awful, people were dying on the road-side and starving of the hunger. It was no surprise for people to shut the doors of their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanespark, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs James Russell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanespark, Co. Tipperary