School: Kilduff
- Location:
- Kilduff Upper, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0962, Page 075
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Kilduff
- XML Page 075
- XML “Land League Activities”
- XML “The Famine”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)it up but he refused. After Mass one Sunday the local men decided to boycott him. They got their drums and hooters ready and off they went. When they were at the cross roads John Martin and his son saw them and came meeting them telling telling them they gave up the land and signed a document that they would have no more to do with it.
- In 1846 & 47 when the potato crop failed the people in this area were in the way of starvation. The old people say that they often heard their parents tell of how the blight cut away the potato stalks and rotted away the potatoes- in one night when it first appeared. They had nothing to eat.
The people lived on the weeds, grass, crowfoot and turnips with a little oatmeal mixed through them. A farm of land in Kilduff of about sixty acres was sold for a cwt of meal. The village of Tubber was prosperous in those days. Indian meal porridge was made there and given out to the starving people. - Collector
- Hugh Mc Grail
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryvalannagher Glebe, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Alteen, Co. Leitrim
