School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Famine 23.5.'38.
The time of the famine the people had not anything to eat only a few of them.they had not even as much money as would buy a coffin for themselves when they would die.They used to put down pots of small turnips and cabbage and pound them up together and eat them.
If everyone had that they would be very proud .Some of them used to be going to work they used to have bread as black as soot.They used to eat grass and it is many a person was found dead with grass in his mouth.When the people used to die they used not have any coffin but they used to tie sugans round them and bury them.
- Collector
- Annie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
