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School: Cill an Daingin, Nenagh (roll number 6658)

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Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
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    The potatoes were not sown broadcast like grain, they were sown in ridges. When the potato crop failed, the people had to eat Indian corn or whole meal. People that had no money to buy that food, died of starvation.
    Government relief reached the district, but it was too late because the people were nearly all dead. Great sickness followed the hunger. People talk about other periods of famine and the distress due to the failure of the potatoe crop.
    Collected by:-
    Maura Collins
    Claree
    Puckane
    Nenagh
    Co. Tipperary.
    Obtained from,
    Mr. John Collins,
    Claree,
    Puckane,
    Nenagh
    Age 50 years.
    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
    Maura Collins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockanacartan, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr John Collins
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Knockanacartan, Co. Tipperary