School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)fever, and they were buried in the cill in the southern end of Skehanore which is called the Reen. In another place in the townland there was a street of twelve houses, and twelve families lived there, and the most of them died of famine and fever, and they were buried in the Cill uncoffined, and several bodies were put in one grave.
Scarely had the people seed-potatoes for 1848.
They cut the eyes out of the potatoes, and sowed them broad-cast like grain, and they produced a wonderful crop of potatoes.
The people ate turnips, and sea-weed, and shell-fish, and boiled nettles.
There are several ruins of houses which were them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jerry Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
