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1. The Famine Times

   

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   Long ago in the Famine times the people of this district suffered terribly with hunger. The potato crop failed and the people had nothing to depend on for food except on the oats which they took to the mill where it was ground into oaten meal. From this they made porridge which they ate with milk and this was the only food they had. An old woman of this locality often related the following story to her neighbours. In the famine times a man had some seed potatoes and he scattered them on a clean, dry floor lest they should decay. When he began to slit them

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridget Best

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   15

   Address

   Tulaigh Uí Fhloinn nó Baile Uí Fhionnáin, Co. Shligigh

   Informant

   Mrs M. Best

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tulaigh Uí Fhloinn nó Baile Uí Fhionnáin, Co. Shligigh