Scoil: Port Omna (B) (uimhir rolla 2174)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   this time committees were established who distributed indian meal called "Committee Meal". Huge vats of Indian meal porridge were in readiness for distribution at the workhouse. Many of those sufferers who survived 1847 were the victims of cholera, resulting from the prolonged hunger. The people died in vast numbers many of them were buried in a graveyard on the Shannon road now long closed up. A temporary workhouse was built about this time for the care of the sick, and the ruins are still to be seen near Anne's pasture, called after an old woman who owned the field.
   At the rear of an old distillery owned by the Monahan family-- a noted incident during this period was that women from Stoney Island came in to Portumna and knit socks all day in a house now occupied by Dan Molloy carpenter and received 1 lb of Indian meal in the evening as wages--
   a story is told of a woman who,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. an gorta mór (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Alban Couser

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   13

   Seoladh

   Port Omna, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Couser

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   45

   Seoladh

   Port Omna, Co. na Gaillimhe