School: Lackamore, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 2428)
- Location:
- Lackamore, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Diolúnaigh
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- The potatoes were dug and pitted and they were affected by dry rot. Indian meal was given out at a mill now the "Burnt Mills" about a mile form Newport - a plate of meal twice a week. A ppor widow used to get two plates of meal twice a week for her three children and herself. This particular evening she kept the meal for the morning meal and went out to a garden belonging to a farmer near and she got some turnip leaves that were thrown waste and some nettles and she boiled them for the evening meal. During the night a flood came - she was living in a boggy district - and swept away the meal.
This illustrates the proverb "Don't keep the night's share for the morning"
Nettles , prussack wee (praireach buidhe) and water cress were largely used during the famines.
- Informant
- Miss Mary Wixted
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Newport, Co. Tipperary
