School: Castlebridge (C.) (roll number 16382)
- Location:
- Castlebridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs E. Shortall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0884, Page 123
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- The great Famine of '46 & '47 caused great distress and hunger here but it was not as bad here as in other places and people used to even come here from other places to work for one meal a day.
This district was more populated in the time of the Famine than it is now but I heard that only one man died with the hunger and that he lived in Crossabeg and he was in the act of eating a turnip when he died.
Nobody knows how the potato blight came because sometimes thunder and lightening brings it and sometimes an insect which works with the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Morris
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Ryan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballytramon, Co. Wexford
