School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)

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1. Famine Times (continued)

   

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   imported into Ireland. It was very fat and was covered with salt. This was sold at fourpence per lb. When the famine started a number of people went into the workhouse but they got little or no food to eat, and the people would rather die than live in it.
   Over one thousand families died in this vicinity, and, the same number emigrated. At the Rent Office a £ was given to anyone who left Ireland, and promised never to return.
   A story is told of a man, named Pat Molloy, who had so many potatoes, during the plentiful year, that he dug a pit and put the potatoes in it to rot. The following year came the blight and Pat Molloy and his family were the first that

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Dell Kivlehan

   Address

   Béal an Átha Mín, Co. Ros Comáin

   Informant

   Mr Kevin Butler

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cruachán, Co. Ros Comáin