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School: Ballylongford (C.) (roll number 11019)

Location:
Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Cáit, Bean Uí Bheoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0402, Page 104

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    There was a great famine in Ireland in the years 1846 and 1847. The district of Ahanagran was very thickly populated before that, but the famine effected it very much, and the people died in great numbers in their own homes and near the ditches.
    A disease called "Black Scab" came on the potatoes and they could not be used. This disease came on them in the ground and in the pits. Some of the potatoes escaped, and the people cut the eyes out of them, and kept them for seed, for the following year, and they ate the rest of them.
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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
    Sarah Dee
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Aghanagran Middle, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Jeremiah Dee
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghanagran Middle, Co. Kerry