School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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every day and boil two pots of them for children.They used eat them for their breakfast and also for their dinner along with salt and sour milk.
When the children used come home from the hedge schools they used be hungry and they used be glad to see another big pot of them boiled when they had no better .
Then they used dig them all and they used do them the whole round of the year.Although they used cause them great hardship there would be a famine only for them.Then in the year 1847 or they called it black 47 they failed and they had to go hungry .After that nearly all the people had died of hunger and also of sickness and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hanora Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Martin Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
