School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 126
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- In the year 1846 the blight first appeared on the potatoe crop. The next year the blight again appeared. The people picked the eyes out of the potatoes with a quill and set them, and on the following year 1848 there was a good crop in Gurteenakilla. The people had to remain up at night to mind the crop or otherwise it would be stolen. They also had to remain up at night to mind heifers, because they would be stolen. On several occasions hides were found in bogs in Gurteenakilla. The people used to kill the heifers and then throw the hides into bogs.
At that time the people used to set the potatoes about the 9th of June in burnt graff, and the potatoes used to be fit for digging in nine weeks. They used to graff the ground into sods, and then burn them and that used make the ground very poor.
- Collector
- Philomena Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Rathruane Beg, Co. Cork
