School: Baile an Chlochair, Lic Snámha (roll number 12410)
- Location:
- Ballincloher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Laochdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0412, Page 025
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile an Chlochair, Lic Snámha
- XML Page 025
- XML “The Famine”
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 17. The Famine
In this part of North Kerry - Lixnaw District - I have heard the old people say they were not quite so badly hit as in the other districts; still some were very poor and many died of hunger.
An old man told me [many] years ago that he saw a man digging up land from which potatoes had been raised and as he unearthed a potato, no matter whether it was half rotten or not, he took it up in his hand, squeezed it and ate it raw.
(no title)
“About 1886 numerous evictions were carried out here by a notorious local agent George Sandes.”
About 1886+8 numerous evictions were carried out here by a notorious local agent named George Sandes J. P. He was agent for Lord Ormathwaite whose family name was Walshe. He owned property in Knockbrane + Derrevrin, in the Lixnaw area. The Land League flourished here then and the leaders especially were picked out by this rack-renting agent for attack, and at about this time the whole townland of Knockbrane was an evicted area. Many of the tenants(continues on next page)
