Scoil: Carrowbeg (uimhir rolla 10754)

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1. Famine Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The Great Famine of 1846-47 affected the district very badly. The district was far more thickly populated before it than it is now.
   There were six houses then to every one that is now. People still point out a few houses which were then occupied but are now in ruins, and not even the ruins of others are to be seen. The blight came about the month of July and the green stalks soon withered away. Then owing to the storm a rot set in in the potatoes and they decayed in the ground. Many that were good at the time of digging decayed later in the pits. A man might have dug for a whole day and not have got a basketful of good potatoes.
   There were seed potatoes for the following year but they came from America. When the seed time came, most people got a poke of potatoes free from the Government. That was the first time the Champion were got in this district. The potatoes were planted in ridges with spades about five or six potatoes wide. This was called

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   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Emma Jean Hutchinson

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Mín Leitir Béil, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Elkin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   72

   Seoladh

   Bun an Phobail, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Faisnéiseoir

   Robert Farren

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   78

   Seoladh

   Baile Mhic Fhearachaigh, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Faisnéiseoir

   Samuel Hutchinson

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   66

   Seoladh

   Mín Leitir Béil, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Faisnéiseoir

   Willie Mc Laughlin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   74

   Seoladh

   Ceathrú Meánach, Co. Dhún na nGall