School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- The famine was in this country from the year 1846 to 1847. The crops all failed. The potatoes rotted in the pits and in the ground. The people were dying with hunger. The land-lord resided in Dublin at that time. He sent each tenant in the property a leaflet with a recipt for the manufacture of rotten potatoes as a substitute for bread. This was called sterna and this bread would be parcelled in paper and hung from the rafters in the houses. This(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Mc Nicholas
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo