School: Carrigaline (B.) (roll number 13512)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: John Wrin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 046
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- Some of the old people have stories about the Great Famine of 1846-47. The Famine did not effect our district very much. The district was thickly populated before that time. There were about three thousand people living in the district. There are about two thousand people living in the district now. People still point out sites of houses then occupied and now in ruins.
The potatoes decayed in the ground and in the pits when the blight came.
People did not die in great numbers in our district. The people ate porridge instead of the potatoes. Great sickness followed the hunger. Government relief did not reach this district. A great number of people imigrated to England and America.
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- Collector
- Peter Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
