School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)
- Location:
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)all over Ireland. It was caused by the failure of the potato crop which was the principal food of the people. It effected the district very much.
The country was very thickly populated at that time. There are some ruins of houses still to be seen. The blight came on the potatoes because the people grew the same seed in the same places too often and the potatoes decayed in the ground.
They had not much seed for the following year as they had hardly enough to eat. The potatoes were sown in ridges. The people ate Indian meal and turnips then. The Government employed the people to make roads so that they would make money. The people died in great numbers with hunger and weakness, some of them emigrated to other countries. A great sickness followed the famine, it was called the fever. There were other famines previous to that one which the old people talk about.
- Collector
- Thomas Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Denis Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 55
- Address
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
