School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 365
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- The cause of the famine was this: the year before the potatoes were so plentiful the people heaped them along the ditches and put them in the garden for manure, so that brought a scourge on the country.
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- Collector
- Mary Gleeson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvemnon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Richard Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Tailor
- Address
- Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
- My Great Grandfather told a story about the time when potatoes were getting back to normal again.
He passed down by a garden one day where a man was digging potatoes. He said to the man: "Well, Mick, how are the potatoes?" The man answered: "Ah! they're fair enough. Some are as big as gooseberries and others are like yellow whate." i.e. Indian Corn.
