School: Cúlfada (roll number 13763)
- Location:
- Coill Fhada, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Liam Barún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 066
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- The great famine one of the most terrible events in history began in 1845. It was caused by the failure of the potato crop. The potato became the chief food of the people. Ever since that time a failure of the potato crop always meant misery and starvation. Nearly four hundred thousand people died of starvation in Connaught in 1740 when the potato crop failed there. Between 1800 and 1845 there were potato famines in several districts, but the famine which began in 1845 was far worse than any of those. In that year the blight appeared in Ireland for the first time.
It spread quickly and the crop failed all over the country.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. Kevil
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios Uí Chonbhuí, Co. Shligigh
