School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lios Mór

Location:
Lismore, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
An tSr M. Cárthach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 28

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  1. The famine affected everybody and mostly the poor. The district was very thickly populated before the famine.
    There are several old buildings in Lismore one for example the Local Union. Whole families were brought into the union and there they died of hunger as there was not enough food to keep them alive.
    The potatoes decayed in the ground. An old lady who lived in the country once told me that during the famine she was coming to town and she found a poor old man lying on the road; she spoke to him but he could scarcely speak; he uttered one word "bread" and she promised him some if she could come by it at all in towns as it was very scarce; But when she returned with the bread he was dead.
    Some kind of a plague broke out after the famine and a large number of
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lismore, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Mrs H. Murphy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lismore, Co. Waterford