School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)cans and come hoem with them full of porridge. It was said that if they would let the can fall, if the road would be level, the porridge would run for about a quarter of a mile, it would be so thin.
The way the potatoes were sprayed at the time of the famine was with tobacco. It was said that the blight came through the air from other countries.
There were hundreds of people dying on the roadside with hunger. At the porridge-huses after the famine there was a lot of ghosts. Anyone that would go the roads after night, they would see crowds of ghosts - young ghosts, old ghosts and middle-aged ghosts. The oldest of them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Calliagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Patrick Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Carn, Co. Monaghan
