School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 107
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- There is not a man or woman in Bere-Island over fifty years who has not a good many stories about the great famine of 1846 and 1847, as it was all told to them in their youth by their parents who I suppose had a good experience of those days. The chief cause of the famine of those years was the failure of the potatoe crop they being their only support for every meal, blackened those two years in the ground and then the poor people were left without any food.
The people were so hungry that they use to eat horses, rats, rotten turnips, and pick the eyes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr M. O Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
