School: Baile Uí Dhuibh (B.) (roll number 13635)

Location:
Ballyduff West, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Ambrose Madders
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    women used to come and gather it up and so they used to have a little more meal. There was also in Kilmeaden, a house where all the families of Kilmeaden used to go and each family got one quart of yellow meal. In the time of the Famine there was, in Ballyduff, a few trees where the people used to hold wakes in the fields. They used to do this for they could not wake them in houses because there were too many people to be waked. This was on account of so many dying of hunger.
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  2. In the year 1847 the main food of the people was potatoes and salt. In the year 1845 the blight came on the potatoes. The blight came like a thick fog. At last they began to rot. When the time
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    John Keane
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Kilmeadan, Co. Waterford