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School: Clochar na Trócaire, An tSráidbhaile (roll number 13020)

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Stradbally, Co. Waterford
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An tSr. Ióseph
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    My Granny told me that her Granny fed the poor people every night with stirrabout and sour milk and oat meal bread and sheep from the mountain were killed for them too. She used to have four big tubs of stirrabout with spoons all round the tubs and milk in the middle and a special tub for the little ones who were crying wild with the hunger. But if they were not protected by her Granny their parents would eat it all and leave them nothing. Such was the starvation of those days.
    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
    Mary Crowley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stradbally More, Co. Waterford