School: Lios Uí Chearbhaill (B.), Malla (roll number 12015)
- Location:
- Lios Cearúill, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0367, Page 143
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- The famine was very severe in my district. The years of the famine were 1845, 1846, 1847. In my district during the famine people used eat raw turnips and caisearbhán. There was a man named Paddy Jordan coming home in a car from Kanturk and he was hungry. Passing Kilbrin he saw a field of turnips and he stole one small one to eat it. He was caught and got a month in gaol. The potatoes rotted in drills and pits. At the time of the famine farmers used have a herdsman and a workman. They used build a house in the field in which the potatoes or turnips were. The herdsman was made stay in the house one night to mind the turnips and potatoes. The workman was made stay in the house another night to mind them. There are remains of one of these old houses in Sallypark Before the famine there were three times as much people in my Village as there are now. Before the famine there were 35 families living in Knahill a townland in my parish. Knahill is to the west of Liscarroll. It contains one
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- Collector
- John O Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Gould
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lios Cearúill, Co. Chorcaí
