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School: Lowtown (B.), Galbally

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Galbally, Co. Limerick
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Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0513, Page 134

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    the blood of the cattle and drank it for sustenance. The hunger was so great that in some districts the people at the donkeys that had served them on their little farms. The people were like savages. They went around almost naked. They went into turnip fields and tried to grab up the roots which had been left.
    When the people were left so hungry a disease known as "famine fever" broke out among them. Thousands of people died of that fever. The people died in such numbers that they had to be buried coffinless in trenches.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Liam Mac Gearailt
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Fitzgerald
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Galbally, Co. Limerick