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

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1. The Famine Times (continued)

   

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   field and everyone that died were thrown into it. The work house was full of sick people and there was no room for any more, so they had to lie on the bank of a river so that they could get a drink if they were dying. You would see some of them lying on the river bank in the morning, some of them stirring, some of them dead. The ones that would be dead would be put into a big carrier and brought to the big hole and thrown in.

   

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2. The Famine Times

   

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   In this district people died in hundreds with the fever which accompanied the famine.

   There was a graveyard in Lowertown called the Cill where numerous people were buried coffinless. Another graveyard is in Croagh. It was the people from

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary P. O Mahony

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Seafort, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Miss Daly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   70

   Address

   Lowertown, Co. Cork