School: Clara (roll number 16116)
- Location:
- Clara Upper, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 374
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- (continued from previous page)black, and nearly all of them rotted in the ground. Those put in pits decayed, also.
The year following the famine, the seed potatoes were very scarce. Some og the farmers who a couple of years before had thrown away potatoes in the ditches, had to go and pick up all taht was left of the roots and sow them in their own gardens. Soon after a plague set in, as a result of the famine, and here, a great many poor people died, either of the sickness or from starvation.
This district usually produces good grain-crops - so oaten-meal and wheaten-flour (got from the oats and wheat crops) were the principal food-stuffs during the famine years - and owing to the supply of these, the sufferings of the people were not as acute as in West and South.
- Informant
- Denis Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Templemartin, Co. Kilkenny
