School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 292
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- (continued from previous page)put all the dead people into it.
In the time of the blight the potatoes, turnips, and cabbage were very scarce.
The people used to dig up the ground to see if they would get any potatoes.
There was a poor old woman over in Moy and she went around and picked them up and brought them home and set them and she had never such a crop of potatoes before.
At this time there was a flour mill in Clarecastle and the man over the flour mill had it guarded with men so that no one would take the flour.
Captain Ellis of Miltown went down to Clarecastle and saw all the people below outside the mill waiting to get some flour.
The people had money to pay for the flour but the man would not give it to them because he would rather see them dead(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Kenzie
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Cornelius Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
