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School: Doire Gealbhan (B.), Ceann Tuirc (roll number 9787)

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Derrygalun, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire de Lonndra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 454

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  1. The Famine

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    The people of this district suffered greatly from the Famine. The end of the summer 1846 the people noticed some disease coming on the gardens that was the blight. As it did not destroy all the crops that year they thought that they would be all right in 1847. But when that year came they were nothing before them but the famine. The people died every place with the hunger. The people went into the workhouses in Kanturk and died there. Before the famine they had only potatoes and milk to eat. They had a lot of wheat in the country but they had to sell it to pay the rent.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Riordan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr T. Riordan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Farrangeel, Co. Cork