School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 19_008
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- (continued from previous page)the locality since a few years ago.
- The great Irish famine occurred in the years 1846-47. My district was thickly populated with people and houses before the famine. A few years before the famine a part of the townland of Ballyhorgan was a village but it is now in ruins. The famine was caused by the blight that destroyed the potato crop in the summer of 1845-46.
As the Irish people unfortunately left themselves dependent for food upon the potato crop the result of the potato failure was starvation among the people. And as the population was then almost(continues on next page) - Collector
- Seán D. Ó Loinsigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhorgan, Co. Kerry
