School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 438
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- (continued from previous page)hunger, before that there were a great population before time of the Famine.
Pupils Name: Mary Younge Killamoyne Borrisoleigh Co.Tipperary.
Whom got: Patrick Clohesy Killamoyne Borrisoleigh Co.Tipperary.
35 yrs.
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- Collector
- Mary Clohesy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Martin Clohesy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- The people told stories about the Great Famine of 1847 that affected this district very much, The district was very much populated before that time. The people still point out sights of house's which was occupied in that time. The potatoe crop failed that year and did not grow. They decayed in the pit's as the people dug them out of the pit's. The next year the people sowed them in seed's like grain with their hand's. The people of that time had only the food the Government send aroud in cars and they became(continues on next page)
