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

Location:
Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó hOgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 125

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 125

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  1. The potatoe crop failed on account of the blight. This disheartened the people very much. At that time the people sowed their potatoes in ridges. They used turn in the grassy side of the scraw. The ridges are still to be seen in some fields. The reason that the ridges are still to be seen in the fields is because the people never dug their potatoes because they rotted.
    The old people say that there are no houses to be seen from the famine times. The reason for that is that the new race of people that came to Ireland used them as stables and new ones were built.
    Collected by:-
    Martin Nevin
    Prospect
    Puckane
    Nenagh
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Nevin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Prospect West, Co. Tipperary