School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 164
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- The Famine caused great harm to this district. All the potatoes rotted. There was a building by the sea full of biscuits but the food was thrown out into the sea, although the people were starving all round. This building was by my house. Some Catholics sold their religion for soup, and are called soupers since then. Sometimes the potatoes rotted in pits. There are places which are said to have been places into which the dead people were thrown.
- Collector
- Vincent Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- The great famine of 1846-47 affected this district very much. Only for charity several families would have died of starvation. Some families were wiped out altogether in want of food(continues on next page)
