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 127
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- There was a famine in this district in the year 1846 and 1847. The beginning of the famine was that blight came on the potatoe crop and affected them very much. The people had a large quantity of potatoes that year but when they went to the pits they had all rotted. On the following year the people had not any seed potatoes to sow, and they cut the eyes out of the affected potatoes and they grew. The people died in great numbers in this locality with hunger.
This townland (Dreenlomane) was very thickly populated at the time of the famine. There were several houses in the townland, but there is no trace of them now. On the side of Mt. Corrin there is still to be seen the ridges where the potatoes were set.
- Collector
- Nora Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Moynihan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
