School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)many more people in this district but most of them were old. Very few young people died during the famine. Although the famine was not bad here the young people got such such a shock that the fled to foreign lands leaving the old people and real young people behind them. There are no ruins of houses in which people perished during the famine
Outside the wall of the present Tournant grave yard there are two fairly big mounds which are believed were the graves of the few victims who perished during the famine.
The potatoes began to decay in the drills after appearing over ground.
So far as I can find out the people got potatoes from England by way of relief and by that means managed to save a small quantity for seed for the following year. They used the "Craosleáns" as food for themselves, they also used nettles and water-cress. The Government relief reached this district.
There was little or no hunger after the famine only a scarcety of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs J. Valentine
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
