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School: Teampoll Doire, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 9060)

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Templederry, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Flannagáin
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    There was a house in Cloghonan where Tom Kennedy's house is now. The people went to Dublin during the Famine and set up a shop and it is one of the most beautiful shops in Dublin to-day and that is Switzer's.
    There are lots of ruins in Curagpeag and Knocknacruiheen [?]. Where people lived and died in the famine years.
    The potatoes failed and as they were the chief food of the people and they depended too much on it. They had to eat grass and blackberries and crabs and on that account they got the plague The cholera came and took the people away in great numbers.
    This was told to me by my mother she heard it from her father who is now dead. Her father was 60 years when he died 16 years ago.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Tynan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castle Otway, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Catherine Tynan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    36
    Address
    Castle Otway, Co. Tipperary