School: Edengorra (roll number 9597)
- Location:
- Edengora, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Michael Hetherton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0710, Page 126
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- The people used to call the Famine Year "Black 47" A great deal of Irish people died of hunter and starvation then. It was known people would go into turnip fields and take turnips home to live one. After the famine a disease came on the people called the Cholera that brought away thousands of Irish people.
A man named Cassidy lived in Kilfannon, Kilmainhamwood and during the Famine he was found dead in his home. An inquest was held and death was due to starvation and hunger. A few pieces of raw turnip were in his stomach.
It was a custom that time to bleed cattle against a disease called 'Blackleg". The women of the country went with little cans to catch the blood and bring it home and boil it with Indiam meal to give to their starving children.
During the famine people were found dead in houses, in fields, by the roadside and in the ditches. The old people say that ghosts were seen walking on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Skelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
