School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lisbealad, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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- Kathleen Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
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- Mrs Margaret Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drinagh East, Co. Cork
- We hear our grand fathers and grand mothers speak very often of the hardship and trials that befell upon them during the years of 1846-47?
At that time I believe the district was very thickly populated, because we can see numerous old ruins almost in every field pointed out to us still which I understand were occupied by inhabitants at that time.
The same year the potato crop got stricken by the blight, which rendered a complete failure every-where, and poor people were in such distress that thousands of them died with starvation because(continues on next page)
