School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)

Location:
Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0103

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  1. The Government gave relief meal and the people were gathered outside the market house in Ballymote waiting to get some meal. The people were dying in large numbers. Some of the people were living in old thatched cabins without fire or food. The landlords supplied the farmers with seed for the following year which they go over from England.
    There was terrible sickness during the famine. It did affect the district very much. It damaged everything. When the people were dying and more of them dead, some of the people who had not the disease used to go and carry these people to some grave and in this way the disease was carried from one to one.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Annie Cnlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockadalteen, Co. Sligo