School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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- The cause of the famine was this: the year before the potatoes were so plentiful the people heaped them along the ditches and put them in the garden for manure, so that brought a scourge on the country.
- The blight came so strong on the potatoes that they all rotted in one night, and the very smell of the rotting potatoes gave rise to a small-pox and Interic fever. How blight came remains a mystery.
The grandfather of John Cantwell, Graigue, Callan, Co. Kilkenny was found dead in a field with grass in his mouth as a result of the famine.- Collector
- Mary Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Richard Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Tailor
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- My Great Grandfather told a story about the time when potatoes were getting back to normal again.
He passed down by a garden one day where a man was digging potatoes. He said to the man: "Well, Mick, how are the potatoes?" The man answered: "Ah! they're fair enough. Some are as big as gooseberries and others are like yellow whate." i.e. Indian Corn.