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School: Islandanny (roll number 5748/9)

Location:
Rea, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 465

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  1. The Famine

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    The great famine of 1846 and 1847 affected the district very much and the old people of the present day tell many stories about it.
    This district was much more thickly populated then than now and various spots are pointed out as sites of houses whose occupants either died of starvation or emigrated.
    Before the Famine five or six houses stood on the "inch land" on the left bank of the Feale, now the property of Tom Keane, Lacca East Kilmorna.
    The potatoes decayed on the ground and the air was polluted by the objectionable
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Miss O Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rea, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr O Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Duagh, Co. Kerry