School: Cill Dá Lua (B.)
- Location:
- Killaloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0587, Page 037
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- (continued from previous page)father ( of Ballyvalley) and his three dug all day in a potato field and the result of their labour was a jacket of potatoes no bigger than marble . Some years after 1847 when my grandmother was coming from mass she was invited to dinner by a well -to-do neighbour with the words ."Come in , we have potatoes for dinner "
Not far from Killaloe Catholic church there is a field known locally as the "Hospital field".It lies at the bck of Mr. Alph Keoghs house. Connected with this field , 81 people who died from cholera in the area were buried in a common grave, in this field without sheet or coffin . On a road between Killaloe and Ballyvalley known locally as the 'high road' people were found dead from hunger . Their mouths were green from the grass the were eating.
It is said that the Protestant Bishop of Killaloe did(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael J. Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Frank Johnson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Fisherman
- Address
- Pier Head, Co. Clare
