School: Cill Mhuire (B.), Lios Árd-achaidh

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1. Famine

   

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   About 90 years ago the potato crop failed in this country and nearly half the people died with hunger. They were making a road in Sean Daingean. One of the men went into a farmers house named John Good and asked for some bread. He gave him a large piece. He was so hungry that he ate it all. When he had it eaten he went inside the fence. He lay down and died. About a mile away from Conover there is a cross name Souper Cross where soup was given free.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Cornelius Lynch

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Shandangan West, Co. Cork

2. The Games and Play

   

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   I play Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, Draughts, Cards, Marbles, Nuts, Hurling, Football, Four Stone fool, A bag of tel, Flying in an Aeroplane, Hunting, Hanball, Hide and go seek, Table tennis, Ping pong, Rings.

   

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3. The Games I Play

   

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   I like in the Spring-time to go into the woods looking for birds nests. I climb up tall trees to crows nests, and count the

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