School: Kilmyshal (roll number 14777)
- Location:
- Kilmyshall, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: E. Mac Niocláis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0891, Page 250
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- The famine which was in 1846 and 1847 was a great downfall to Ireland. All the potatoes got black in the ground before they were dug all the poor people had to go to Clohamon for porridge. There was a man in Clohamon that used make it. He used to buy meal in Newtownbarry.
A great lot of people died of hunger and sickness. The people used to carry the corpses to the graveyard on a Bier, four men would carry it till they tired and then four others would take their place.
- Collector
- Kathleen Slye
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Matthew Tyrrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Rossard, Co. Wexford
