Scoil: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lios Mór

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1. Famine Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The famine affected everybody and mostly the poor. The district was very thickly populated before the famine.
   There are several old buildings in Lismore one for example the Local Union. Whole families were brought into the union and there they died of hunger as there was not enough food to keep them alive.
   The potatoes decayed in the ground. An old lady who lived in the country once told me that during the famine she was coming to town and she found a poor old man lying on the road; she spoke to him but he could scarcely speak; he uttered one word "bread" and she promised him some if she could come by it at all in towns as it was very scarce; But when she returned with the bread he was dead.
   Some kind of a plague broke out after the famine and a large number of

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. an gorta mór (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Teresa Murphy

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Lios Mór, Co. Phort Láirge

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs H. Murphy

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Lios Mór, Co. Phort Láirge