Scoil: Ladhar (B.), Bán-Tír (uimhir rolla 3269)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Bad Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There was great poverty in this district during the years of the famine 1846-47. In many townlands at the present time, old people point to mounds of earth and stones where dead bodies were covered up in those days. It is stated in all seriousness that dogs, driven wild almost, with hunger, devoured many human corpses
   Before the famine lure district was thickly populated and this fact is shown by the great number of sean - [?] and little haggards which are scattered along the northern brow of Lyre mountain
   The British Parliament voted a considerable sum of money to relieve the distress in Ireland at that time. It was said that the grant was sufficient "to give fresh beef anf plum-puddings in Ireland." 'Twas said that a gift of £20,000 by the Sultan of Turkey to help the poor people was

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thade Horgan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   60

   Seoladh

   Lyre, Co. Cork