School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inistíomáin (roll number 16359)
- Location:
- Ennistimon, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSiúr Teresita
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0621, Page 074
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- In the year eighteen forty seven a great tragedy started called the famine. People died by the roadside for the want of food. Some died in the fields eating the grass. A blight came on the potatoes and they decayed in the ground. The principal food at that time was potatoes and milk. There was no other food to be had tea nor bread. At government depots here and there starving creatures dipped their hands into boiling maize or Indian meal and swallowed with anvidity the burning food.
All day long carts were moving to the graveyard with uncoffined loads of people and he calls the priest. Pits were dug in the cemeteries and the buried service was read over twenty corpses at a time.
- Collector
- Patsy Mc Namara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodmount, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Namara
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Woodmount, Co. Clare
