1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Rathdowney (B.)

School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)

Location:
Rathdowney, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Peter Hegarty
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 341

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0827, Page 341

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Rathdowney (B.)
  2. XML Page 341
  3. XML “Famine Times”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Famine Times

    Share Share Post
    It was in the year 1847 that the famine first appeared.
    The famine with the fever and other diseases which it caused (?) so much that great numbers died and some died on board ship when sailing to America.
    It lessened the population by two million during the famine. One half of the number died of hunger or disease and the other half left the country.
    That year the Indian meal also came to Ireland and they ate it not properly cooked and died.
    People died so quickly that they had
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Kirwan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Donaghmore, Co. Laois
    Informant
    John Wall
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castletown, Co. Laois