School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)

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1. The Famine (continued)

   

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   a lot of potatoes stored in an out house. A poor man living near him got a long stick with a pointed nail at one end and through an opening in the wall of the house, he brought out the potatoes one by one. He brought out as many in one night as would do himself and his family for a week.

   

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2. The Famine

   

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   In the year 1846 and 1847 a great famine spread throughout this country. At the time there were twenty six houses from Graigue school (Kildorrery Co Cork) to the bridge. All these houses were made of mud. There is no trace of these houses left now. It was around the School and the Forge the blight made its first appearance in the year 1847. The potatoes blackened

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Carroll

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Boleynanoultagh, Co. Cork

   Informant

   John Walsh

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Address

   Cullenagh, Co. Cork