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School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)

Location:
Owning, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Sr. M. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0844, Page 053

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  1. Famine Times (continued)

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    roads of Owning there is a big tree surrounded with stones and it is called the bulk. During the famine times the Government relived the people by giving them porridge. On the bulk it was distributed every day.
    It is said that some of the people were never interred but they were left on the side of the road and in the fields as they died.
    At the present time the blight came on the potatoes the people would not be as badly off because they do not depend so much on potatoes for food.
    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
    Evelyn Blackmore
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmanahin, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Henry Blackmore
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Kilmanahin, Co. Kilkenny