School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nialláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0715, Page 553
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- (continued from previous page)and marigolds were very much used as food. In this District Mrs. Naper grandmother of the present captain Naper contributed a large herd of Deer and other animals to feed the starving people.In the year before the famine the potatoes were so plent-ful in this District that a man took two barrels of potatoes to a local inn and only received a naggin of Whiskey for them. They were also thrown in the ditches as there was scarcely any use for them owing to the vast crop of the year.
- Informant
- Mr Peter Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Fennor Lower, Co. Meath
