School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Tulach
- Location:
- Tulla, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0589, Page 208
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- Famine Times
In the year 1846-7 there was a famine in Ireland. The potatoes were the chief food of the people and they blackened and the people had nothing to eat. They ate weeds nettles and raw turnips boiled with salt.
Thousands died from hunger and starvation. People lived three days without eating anything. Roads fields and towns were thronged with dead people.
A man named Minor Moloney lived in my district. He used kill cattle and invite the people to drink the soup and most of the people died before they reached his house.
People had to eat the indian meal and there was not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríd Ní Bhriain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockjames, Co. Clare
