School: Cill Mhic Eoghain (roll number 9848)
- Location:
- Kilmackowen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Hurdail
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- In the time of the famine when the potato crops failed the people had very little food to eat. Sometimes the poor had nothing at all to eat, and they were often seen eating grass in the fields.
When most of the roads in this part of Ireland were made the old people worked at them. The food which they usually had was, a pot of yellow meal, and sometimes it was not boiled only steeped in water.
Flour was very dear in those days, and the people did every-thing they could to spare it. They made cakes of meal, and of wheat, and sometimes of rye. They made cakes from potatoes and a little flour which was called "stampey". They had potatoes three times every day when they were plentiful.
- Collector
- May Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Eyeries, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Michael Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eyeries, Co. Cork
