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School: Ardaghy, Omeath

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Ardaghy, Co. Louth
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B. Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0658, Page 181

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  1. The Famine

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    There is not much recollection of the famine of 1847-48 in Omeath nowadays. But apparently in Omeath even in those days nobody died. The small farmers in Omeath were all fishermen as well. They always grew a lot of corn and having then the corn mill in Ballinteskin in good working order every householder got a quantity of corn ground into oatmeal which would last them till the next harvest. Unfortunately this mill was disallowed to continue.
    The main road known as the New Line was started in the days of the famine and poor men walked from Ravensdale to work on it at six pence per day. After some months working it was left unfinished for thirty or forty years.
    Collected by:
    Mary McQuaid,
    Ardaghy.
    From:
    Charles McQuaid,
    Ardaghy,
    Omeath.
    8-4-38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Quaid
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ardaghy, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Charles Mc Quaid
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ardaghy, Co. Louth