School: Ráth gCaola (B.) (roll number 1282)
- Location:
- Rathkeale, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Coindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0501, Page 050
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- During the first year of the famine the people were able to grow potatoes, but when the second year came there were no potatoes to be had. When the famine came all the potatoes stopped growing, and the people grew wheat, and they were able to make bread, and live on it for a while. When that failed the people began to eat grass, and that killed a good many of them.Some people ate leaves off rhubarb instead of cabbage, and they were all dead the next day. If a gentleman was riding along the road, and if he saw a potato, he would pick it up, and put it in his pocket.In some sheltered places the people were able to grow potatoes. There was a hospital built in this town during the famine for the sick people. Indian Meal was sent from America, and it was cooked in big boilers. There is a gentleman living two miles from this town whose name is Major Massey and he has a big boiler. The height of it is six or seven feet, and it is four or five feet in diameter.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P.J. Madigan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr John Madigan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Rathkeale, Co. Limerick
