School: Port Omna (B) (roll number 2174)

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1. Famine Times (continued)

   

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   this time committees were established who distributed indian meal called "Committee Meal". Huge vats of Indian meal porridge were in readiness for distribution at the workhouse. Many of those sufferers who survived 1847 were the victims of cholera, resulting from the prolonged hunger. The people died in vast numbers many of them were buried in a graveyard on the Shannon road now long closed up. A temporary workhouse was built about this time for the care of the sick, and the ruins are still to be seen near Anne's pasture, called after an old woman who owned the field.
   At the rear of an old distillery owned by the Monahan family-- a noted incident during this period was that women from Stoney Island came in to Portumna and knit socks all day in a house now occupied by Dan Molloy carpenter and received 1 lb of Indian meal in the evening as wages--
   a story is told of a woman who,

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alban Couser

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Portumna, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Couser

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   45

   Address

   Portumna, Co. Galway