School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)

Location:
Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 210

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    At that time the Government of England sent cakes of bread and made out work for the young men and sent money to the poor and aged people who were not able to work. It is said that in the famine years the Listowel bridge was built and the men worked there for three halfpence and two pence a day and thought it great earning.
    During the famine years great numbers of people died on the roadsides, on the sides of ditches and at the doorsteps of houses. Great numbers of people died in this district of a disease called cholera which was got from long fasting and hunger and it is said that about a million people left Ireland and went to the United States, Canada and England to escape death from the hunger at home. A man named McCarthy of Dysert was driven out of his house because he could not pay the rent and he left his house and died with
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Quilter
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhennessy, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Michael Dowling
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Ballintogher, Co. Kerry