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School: Tobar Ruadh

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Toberroe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0165

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    about ninety years ago there was a famine in Ireland and a lot of people died. The people around here had not anything to eat except grass and nettles.
    They would go out in the fields and gather all the grass and nettles they could and boil them and eat them. If they got a bucketful they thought it was great but as last it was very hard to get them because the people used to come a long way to get them.
    Some houses fell and the people were not able to rebuild them because they had no money and a lot of people died of hunger also.
    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
    Tommy Concannon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Deerpark, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Paddy Higgins
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Deerpark, Co. Galway