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1. Famine Times

   

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   There was a famine in the year 1846 and '47. This district was thickly populated with people before the famine. Long ago there were two or three houses on one farm and now-a-days there is only one house on each farm. The old houses are all in ruins. Some of them are gone altogether. There is only about one third the number of people in the district. The people died of hunger because the potato crop failed. The people sold the corn to pay the rent. The people were lying along the roadside dead or dying. The people had friends in America and they sent over Indian meal and gathered money and sent it over to the Irish. Boiling Houses were set up all over the district for boiling Indian porridge and the people came with cans for porridge every day.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Ross

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tonyglassan, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Mrs Ross

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tonyglassan, Co. Monaghan

2. Famine Times

   

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   There are two boiling houses in this district one out side Ballybay on the Cootehill road and the other in Willie Scott's farm in Shean. Porridge was made in these boiling houses and people came with cans for porridge.

   

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