School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)

Location:
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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  1. 23-2-38 Local Happenings
    There was a burning in Bramblestown many years ago it caused a lot of damage it burned the building and also it burned some outhouses and hay, no lives were lost.
    In ninteen hundred and seven the Monster House in Kilkenny was burned. Only part of it was burned the good store and some other where. It has now been rebuilt.
    The black flu came to Gowran about forty years ago roughly in ninteen hundred. All the people died of it & when they were dead they got black.
    In ninteen hundred & four or five a blight came on the potatoes & the people had nothing to eat, only stirr-about as they had no tea then.
    In eighteen & twenty one or two the people had such a yield of potatoes that they thron the half of them out, & the following year they were all black & could'nt be eaten. People say that it was a punishment for throwing them out the year before.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eithne Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76
    Address
    Rathcash, Co. Kilkenny