Scoil: Britway (Bréachmhagh) (uimhir rolla 3993)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Famine Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   part of the seed for the coming year came from Alba and others say they came from America. The potatoes for the coming year were not sown broadcast, but mostly in ridges. The food the people had instead was Indian meal, turnips, milk, and any vegetable they could get, and it is said many were found dead with bags of turnips beside them.

   

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2. The Famine Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   2
   The people had no nourishment, they were living on potatoes and sour milk. The district was thickly populated before that time. There were only small thatched houses at the time made of mud and stones, there are none of them standing at the present day. Very little potatoes for the coming year were spared. The few that were spared were the ones that shot up from the ground, and the Government sent over from England some seed for the coming year. The people were living

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Mac Carthy

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Kilcor North, Co. Cork