Scoil: An Clochar, Buirgheas Uí Chatháin (uimhir rolla 15820)

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1. Famine Times

   

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   Famine Times
   The district of Finnoe about a mile from Borrisokane suffered very severely during the famine years. Nobody in the district had potatoes only one old man named Tom Ralph of Ralphmount, Borrisokane , and he gave to the starving people as much of his crop as he could spare , and to the people to whom he did not give came one night and took every root potato this man had, with the result that he died after three weeks of pure starvation. the other starving people of the district crowded to the workhouse ,and, if anyone died there, the owners of the dead body would go late at night with a long box , *coffin* the body and take itto the nearest dyke or drain ,throw it in and sometimes throw some clay over it . When the potato crop failed the first year the people used to boil some sort of meal for food, but very soon the y got a disease which they

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Nancy Donaldson

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Curraghmore, Co. Tipperary

   Faisnéiseoir

   George Donaldson

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Curraghmore, Co. Tipperary