Scoil: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (uimhir rolla 15043)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   famine people lived almost entirely on potatoes and buttermilk. A song of the period says:-
   "Potatoes by night,
   Potatoes by day,
   And if I were to rise at midnight,
   Potatoes I would get!"
   The use of the potato became general in Ireland in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Potatoes were so easily raised that they ensured the people against actual starvation, except when the crop failed. But they also encouraged idleness, since the labour of man could produce enough food for twenty people, and they also hindered the raising of more profitable crops.
   During the time of the famine in Boyle, the government gave work to the people, such as

   (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

   Dell Kivlehan

   Seoladh

   Béal an Átha Mín, Co. Ros Comáin

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr James Kearns

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Iorras, Co. Ros Comáin