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School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)

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Lisbealad, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 333

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  1. Famine Times

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    The old people tell many stories about the famine times. They suffered a good deal with the hunger and a great many of them died. In those times the people had nothing to eat when the potatoe crop failed but yellow meal stirabout. When they sat the seed they all rotted in the ground.
    After the famine there was a class of potatoes called the champions and it was a great relief to the poor people. In all their hunger they got no relief from the Government. Neither would they let any food into Ireland. It is said that they were carried in cart loads from Dunmanway Hospital to Fonlabush grave-yard. They died by the side of the fences. The old people say there is great difference between these times and the present times.
    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
    Mary Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Ellen Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drinagh East, Co. Cork

  2. Famine Times

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    In the year 1845 the population of Ireland was between eight and nine million people, the majority of them chiefly depended on agriculture or subsistence. In the south and west the people lived by agriculture alone. They depended entirely on the potato crop for food. The potato blight began in Ireland in the autumn of 1845 and same again the following year. In 1847 a great calamity befell the country. Not a county in Ireland escaped the potato disease and many of the southern and western counties were soon in actual famine. A peculiar form of fever, famine fever it was called, began to show itself
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Crowley
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Crowley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Inchafune, Co. Cork