School: Cnoc na Biolaraighe
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- Teacher: Dll. Mac Carrthaigh
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Stories of Watergrasshill and District from Old Inhabitants - Stories of the Famine
“She saw turnips boiled with Salt fish...”
She saw TURNIPS BOILED WITH SALT FISH as the principal meal for a "meithol" at a farmer's house during these times. Turnips and Indian meal were the principal food of most poor people. The fever which followed the famine was a terrible scourge. The "poor-houses" had specially made coffins with hinged bottom, so that it could be used again and again. They simply dropped the corpses from it into the open pit and it was ready for use again.Stories of Watergrasshill and District from Old Inhabitants - Stories of the Famine
“This conversation at the time of the Famine...”
This conversation at the time of the Famine was given me by my uncle many years ago: (Timothy Noonan)
"Conus tá na prátaí thall agaibh?(continues on next page)