School: Cor Bealaigh

Location:
Corbally, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Marcacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 078

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  1. The people of Ireland were cursed with a damine in 1847. They depended very much on the potato crop and in this year it was struck with the blight and they had no potato crop. The people of this district had to live on turnips and some poor people got relief. Indian meal. Some of the people were not able to pay the rent and had to leave and other who had a little mony went to America. They earned a little mony to send home to the people. Turnips were eaten as a daily food and were sold at a shilling a hundred-weight. Relief ships landed at last at Ballina quay with next and other foods but hundreds were dead along the road-side and others died when they began to eat the food and
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jack Donegan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Newtown, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Owen Donegan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Newtown, Co. Sligo