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School: Gráig (2) (roll number 3402)

Location:
Graigueadrisly, Co. Laois
Teacher:
M. Ní Laighean
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0829, Page 166

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    The district was very thickly populated during the famine times. The sites of many housed which were occupied during the famine can still be pointed out. When the blight first came on the potatoes people couldn't make out what it was. The leaves withered and got black. The potatoes decayed in the pits. The seed potatoes were imported for the following year. The potatoes were sown in ridges about fur feet wide.
    Indian porridge was the chief food instead of potatoes. The people who weren't able to buy the meal in the town went to a house called the cook house and got it free.Those houses were erected by the government. There was one of those cook houses at Clonmeen Bridge.
    Many diseases caused by hunger
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    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
    Kitty Bowe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Graigueadrisly, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Mr Whelan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graigueadrisly, Co. Laois