School: Ród (B.)
- Location:
- Rhode, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoldomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0801, Page 300
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“About the years 1845, '46 and '47 a great famine raged in Ireland.”
About the year 1845, '36 and '47 a great famine raged in Ireland. It was also called the Black Famine, because when the blight fell on the potatoes they turned black. It was no unwanted sight during those terrible years to see the decent labouring people dying like bestial mendicants in the ditches.
One story of those ghastly times will always remain in my memory. It was a story of how a man named Patrick Tyler of Corbetstown, Garr, was whipped into unconsciousness by his Landlord's servants who lived in a castle near the Boyne Bridge.
When his potatoes were all consumed by the hungry fangs of the famine, he went up to the castle and asked for two turnips, whereupon orders were given for his arrest. He was then tied to a stake and three men whipped him for 15 minutes.
When he hung loosely on the ropes he was cut loose, and was let fall to the ground.
He was unconscious for some time, and when he got better, he found out that he couldn't walk, from loss of blood. He then crawled away and died like a dog under a nearby hedge.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rhode, Co. Offaly