School: Béal Átha na Sluagh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Béal Átha na Sluaighe, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Liam P. Mac an Bháird
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0094
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The FamineIn the year 1847 it was a very sad one for the people of Ireland, for it was then that a terrible famine of rose throughout the land. They had to rent land from the landlords who had managed in various ways to get possession of the best parts of the land. This rent was paid by raising crops of corn and sent over to England. No matter how hard it was for the poor people to make a living the landlords made sure that the rent was paid, and year by year the crops were gathered and sent to England and sold for the sake of the landlords. At this time in Ireland there were over eight million people in Ireland and there were no industries to give them employment. The only thing that the people were living on was potatoes and milk.Told by
Donald Carroll
Dunlo Hill
12/10/38
- Informant
- Donald Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sráid Dhún Leo, Co. na Gaillimhe
