Scoil: Loch Measca

Suíomh:
Cathair Roibeird, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Múinteoir:
Máire, Bean an Bhrúnaigh
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0103, Leathanach 350

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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0103, Leathanach 350

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  1. XML Scoil: Loch Measca
  2. XML Leathanach 350
  3. XML “The Famine Years 1846-1847”

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  1. These were bad years in every part of Ireland, but here in the west, where people were depending entirely on potatoes for food, their state was a sad one.
    The year 1846 closed in gloom. It left the people round this district sinking into their graves in hundreds for want of food. It was in 1847 that the highest point of misery and death had been reached. Fever then set in to add to the horrors of famine.
    My grandfather told me that there was not a domestic animal to be seen from Ballinrobe to Connemara - pigs and poultry had all died.
    There were soup houses set up here and there, and soup could be got at one penny a quart, but many people died of hunger rather than go to the soup kitchens.
    The soupers, as the people in charge were called, very often offered free soup to those Catholics who would change their religion.
    One such soup kitchen was at Tourmakeady. There were soup kitchens in nearly every district, but in this district it was not made much use of as the people had a fairly good supply of oats, which they ground, and made oaten bread and porridge from it.
    The Ballinrobe Workhouse was crowded and the deaths
    (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
    Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.
    Topaicí
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      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
        1. an gorta mór (~4,013)
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    Béarla
    Bailitheoir
    Tommy Lynagh
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    Fireann
    Seoladh
    Cill Odhar, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Faisnéiseoir
    Martin Brannigan
    Gaol
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    Fireann
    Aois
    86
    Seoladh
    Cill Odhar, Co. Mhaigh Eo