School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)in the country and many people died with diarrhoea, cholera, and Black-fever. Those years were called black 1846-47. This account was told to me by my father and Mr Francis Farrelly, Kilbeg.
- These accounts were given to me by Paddy Lynch of Roberstown.
In 1846-47 there was a great famine throughout all Ireland. In this district there were little villages about half a mile from each other and about twenty houses in each village. The cause of the famine was the failure of the potato-crop. There was plenty of wheat in the country but the people had to sell it to pay the landlords. After a while the people got sick from starvation and the hospitals weren’t able to hold all the people, so a rich man in Spandow who had a very big house turned it into a hospital.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Joe Duignan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Paddy Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Robertstown, Co. Meath
