School: Tullaghanstown (roll number 9605)
- Location:
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Cába
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0698, Page 197
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- (continued from previous page)rolled afterwards in pits.
It was only the potatoe crop failed, and cattle, sheep, and pigs were plentiful, and the corn waved in abundance in the corn-fields.
People used to exchange these things for Indian meal which they used to make into porridge, and some times they used to walk twenty miles to buy a stone of meal.
All kinds of fowl disappeared, they either died of starvation, or were killed and eaten.
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- Collector
- Tommie Tuite
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Bennie Tuite
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tullaghanstown, Co. Meath
