School: Kilmyshal (roll number 14777)

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1. The Famine

   

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   The Famine was in the year 1846 -1847. Most of the potatoes decayed in the ground and some of them were dug and put in pits. There was no food that time and people died of hunger. There is one man named Bookey he is 98 years of age and he remembers the Famine. He told me a story about it. He said that the people used to be carried to the grave-yard on a Bier. There would be about six men carrying it if it was a big one and four men would carry it if it was a small one. The people of Clohamon used to make porridge and sell it to the people that were able to buy it. They would give it free to the poor people. There are houses where these people lived in my uncle's field. There were 14 in one field and there is a field with a grave in it where a man was buried. They could not bring him to the grave-yard because he had a terrible disease called the Black-

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josie Comerford

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   James Comerford

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   48

   Address

   Castlequarter, Co. Wexford