School: Britway (Bréachmhagh) (roll number 3993)

Location:
Britway, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Síothcháin
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    on Indian meal and porridge, that was sent over from foreign countries. Some used to boil it and sell it to others, a small plate of it for a halfpenny. There were huts built in the fields for the farmers, to watch the turnips from the rabbits, and people used to eat them, and also they used to rot. There seemed to be a plague on every thing at that time. The food was the hurts off the fences. The people were dying in hundreds, great sickness followed the hunger, there was a large black cloud rolling along the sky, every-where it stopped the people fell ill
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggie Sweeney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Barrafohona, Co. Cork