School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 16_003
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The Famine 7.12 .1937
About seventy years ago there was a scarcity of food .A man had a lot of children and seeing they were hungry he went to a neighbours garden and got a large turnip and cut it for the children.he was unable to eat it himself and he went out and died by a ditch his name was White he lived near Ballinahown. A man had a garden if turnips and he said every one to take one turnip and if anyone took took more he would kill them .The English did this to starve the Irish.
- Collector
- Michael Mc Namara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Michael Mc Namara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Knocknahannee, Co. Clare
