School: Doirín Árd, Béal Átha an Dá Chab (roll number 15969)
- Location:
- Cappagh More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dubhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 055
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- (continued from previous page)"Thank God" I didn't bury the food. The following year the English men came over and opened copper mines and slate quarries and gave employment to thousands of people and paid them 3d and 4d a day
The people were so much in the want of food, they used steal milk from their neighbours cows in the night.
- Long long ago in the years 1846 and 1847 there was a great famine. The poor people had nothing to eat. They used only go out in the fields and they used eat the turnips that were growing in the fields. They usedn't even boil the turnips only eat them without boiling them at all.
Of course no one could possibly live with that feeding. Indeed those people did not live long. Day after(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreenard, Co. Cork
