School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 364
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- Some people say the potatoes decayed in the pits and others say in the ground. The people used yellow meal instead of the potatoes.
- The famine did affect this district very much, so much so that the poor used to assemble outside a certain house in Fethard St. which is known to this day as "The Soup House," to get their allowance of Indian Meal.
From want and hunger the awful disease of Cholera set in.
The excessive use of lime as a fertilizer caused a disease dnown as Black Scab on the potato crop. - One day a poor woman went into a farmer's house looking for help which she got. A few days before this a pig had died and had been thrown out on the manure heap. The woman took it with her and brought it home and boiled it for her children.
- Collector
- Nellie O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Charles O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Occupation
- Shoemaker
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
