School: Clochar na Trocaire

Location:
Tuam, Co. Galway
Teacher:
an tSiúr M. Oilibhéir
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  1. The famine was very severe around Tuam.
    The workhouse was full (d) with dead and dying bodyes and people lay dead on the roadside from fever and starvation.
    The blight came on the potatoes when they were in the middle of their growth.
    They got seed from England when the famine was over the people had to eat grass and raw turnips and drink butter milk as they had nothing else.
    No one helped them they were left alone to die of starvation.
    There was a fever if came from unburied bodies.
    There was a scarcity of other crops as well.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Kilkelly
    Address
    Tuam, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mr Kilkelly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tuam, Co. Galway