School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)

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1. The Famine Times (continued)

   

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   few months but was lame in one leg. The man hit him on the leg with the shovel and broke it. This man is only about twenty years dead. He was an inhabitant of Long Island but I do not know his name.

   When the famine was nearly over a Workhouse was built to the east of Schull and all people who were dying went there. To the back of the workhouse there is a graveyard where the people who died were buried. The graves can still be seen.

   

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2. The Famine Times

   

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   There was a work house made East of Schull for the people who were dying. Every day there were thousands of dying people carrying to the work house and half of them died and there was no coffin made for them. There was one big hole made in a

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nellie Donovan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Balteen, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr Patrick Donovan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   64

   Address

   Balteen, Co. Cork