Scoil: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (uimhir rolla 15043)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   to four thousand from six thousand in Boyle.
   When the potato crop failed the poor people were so hungry that they spent the rent money on Indian meal. and thus they were evicted. Some of the English landlords were very generous and fed and clothed the poor evicted people. The chief food used by the people instead of potatoes was turnips and milk. Another food they used was "flumary". It consisted of grains of oatmeal which were left in water, until the liquid had a sour taste. This they boiled until it thickened and it tasted like the cornflour we use nowadays.
   The year before, was the most plentiful year for potatoes in Ireland, and the wiser people

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Dell Kivlehan

   Seoladh

   Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Kevin Butler

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Croghan, Co. Roscommon