School: Cadamstown, Enfeild (roll number 6749)
- Location:
- Cadamstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Mac Giolla Riabhaigh
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- This part of the country was very thickley populated.Around here from the school to our house which is about 150 yards they were 11 houses there are traces of some of them. The potatoes rotted in the ground and when the people went to dig them they had no potatoes. Anyone that had money baught them from Scotland and any one that had no money had to do adodut them. Nearly 2 million people went out of this country between what the famine killed and what emigrated to America. Ryndville hill at that time was lowred 5 or 6 feed for to give the people relief work they were gave fourpences a day and fed on yellow meal which was boyled in a big pot and all the men brought a small can and filled it and brought it with them for thire dinners when the would be going to work. There is a famine pot in Enfield at the back of Mahers house it is used now as a throck for givin cattle a drink.
- Collector
- Paddy Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cadamstown, Co. Kildare
