School: Cill Bhonáin, Droichead na Bandan (roll number 1271)
- Location:
- Kilbonane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0346, Page 075
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- There are many stories about the Famine. It effected my district very much. At that time the population was not very thick but it was not very small.
There are houses in the district which were occupied then and now in ruins.
In the district the Protestants made houses and they called them "soup-houses". One of these is occupied by a shoe-maker to-day. When the Catholics passed by the road they would try to coaxe them in. If they turned a Protestant they would get "soup".
During the famine many people died of hunger because potatoes were their main food. Then a great sickness came(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Monica Meaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Edward Lehane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilbane, Co. Cork
