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School: Kilsarcon (C.) (roll number 14798)

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Kilsarkan West, Co. Kerry
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Caitrín Ní Dhálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 398

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    "Black '47" They has no seed for three years, and then they got them from Scotland.
    The Americans sent over yellow grains but they did not know how to cook it, because they never had but potatoes and sour milk, and this food only killed a lot of them.
    It was followed by great sickness. The population was reduced to 3 1/2 millions. For years after the farmers used have to [?] stay up by night, minding their gardens for fear the potatoes would be stolen. There was hunger and starvation until Parnell's time in 1879.
    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
    Han Healy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knocknaharan, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr John Rahilly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    81
    Address
    Knocknaharan, Co. Kerry