School: Clochar na Trocaire
- Location:
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: an tSiúr M. Oilibhéir
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- 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.- Collector
- Kitty Kilkelly
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Kilkelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway