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School: Cor Dubh (roll number 13806)

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Corduff, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Mrs Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 057

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    The Famine was in the years 1847 and '48 and '49. The potatoes that were in dry ground were rotten, and the potatoes that were in wet ground were good. The people could not get anything to eat only grass and stirabout.
    There is a rock in Greagh called the Hospital Rock, and the people used to go to it to get something to eat. There was a house on the Old Road, and it was called the Stirabout House, and people used to go to it to get stirabout. There was and old man going round the country here begging and he got potatoes to eat and he nearly choked himself eating with hunger.
    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
    Mick Joe Marron
    Gender
    Male