School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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- During the famine times the women were breaking stones on the roads.
- The government opened new roads to give employment to people. They were paid sixpence a day and some of them worked for their food. Poor Law Unions were giving the poor people Indian Meal. The house were Kents are now living at Deerpark, Castlelyons was a hospital where poor people were given food.
- Collector
- Patrick Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- People were so hungry they gathered turnip leaves and ate them. Farmers had to sell their lands for three bags of potatoes and a couple of stone of Indian meal. A labourer's highest pay was a penny a day. Masons were paid two pence or threepence a day.
