School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)

Location:
Brownsgrove, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó hAnnracháin
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  1. The Famine
    The year of the famine that is 1847 the people had not anything to eat but eating the green leaves of cabbage and Indian meal porridge. They used to get the Indian meal from a sort of a committee (like the town commissions at present) which was in Tuam. Each family used to be allowed two stones of Indian meal free every week
    They used to chop up the cabbage and mix the porridge with it and eat this. People who could not live on this used to go into a home in Tuam. When this home used to to be filled they used to send them to another home in Glenamaddy. They used to have to walk from Tuam to Glenamaddy a distance about sixteen miles. They say that if they saw a garden of cabbage by the roadside that they would break into it and start eating the cabbage. Often they used to die on the journey.
    There were about three or four times the number of people in this place at that time. People were often found dead with their mouths green from eating nettles or
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Moloney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowntanlis, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Moloney
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    73
    Address
    Carrowntanlis, Co. Galway