School: Boston, Tubber (roll number 10763)
- Location:
- Boston, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Thos. Noone
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- The bad times affected the people of this district terribly.
The cause of the famine was the failure of the potato crop. The people depended solely on the potato crop at that time. They had to eat nettles, grass and every kind of weed. The people were dying so fast that the people could not bury them. They made trenches and threw the people into them. The people had to walk along the dead people in order to level them. The name of the disease was black galar.
There were a great deal more people living at that time than now a days.
The potatoes rotted in the pits. They all got black. There was a woman in Foot Park, Co. Galway and she shook the holy water on the potatoes before she closed the pit and not one of the potatoes rotted.
The seed the people had for the next year was the peaks of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Fhlannchaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Attyslany North, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 26
- Address
- Fiddaun, Co. Galway
