School: Ceathair Dhúin Iascaigh, Clochar na Trócaire
- Location:
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Tréisín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0569, Page 263
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- (continued from previous page)Out of the end of the Scarrough Wood(off the Mitchelstown Rd, Cahir) there is the remains of an old graveyard and there was a "Poor House", near it. It is said that during the famine the poor people used to go into that poor house, and the farmers of the district used to throw the tops of the turnips into the people who were glad to get them to eat. Then when the people died they were brought to that graveyard and buried there. Two of the graves in that graveyard, where little children are buried, always remain green.
- In the barn owned by Mr. Aherne there is a stone in the middle of the floor and on it is written 1847. It is supposed that food was distributed from the original old house, replaced by the barn.
- Collector
- Helen Ahearne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcommon More (South), Co. Tipperary
