School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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- (continued from previous page)liquid. Many villages were completely swept away by the famine and the remains of the buildings are still to be seen in the country to this very day.
- The people used to out into the fields and get yellow turnips and they used to go into the ditches and eat them. Every night they used to bury someone and they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Veronica Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
