Scoil: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (uimhir rolla 11715)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   A very old women who lived in this district during the years of the famine gives a very pitiful account of it. No food, no clothes, no money to buy them. Nothing but starvation over all the land. In one house the man went out begging food for his wife and three children never to return. Some neighbours visited the house later to find them weak in the want of food and drink. They died and it is said they tried to get coffins but they failed so they wrapped them in sheets and buried them in the nearest graveyard names Fanbobush[?] near Dunmanway.
   The potatoes crop failed in the ground in the year 1846-47. They blackened and were very small no food for any-one and when eaten brought on sickness from which numbers died.

   

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

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2. Famine Times

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   

   Níl tú logáilte isteach, ach tá fáilte romhat tras-scríobh a dhéanamh go hanaithnid. Sa chás seo, déanfar do sheoladh IP a stóráil ar mhaithe le rialú cáilíochta.

   We hear our grand fathers and grand mothers speak very often of the hardship and trials that befell upon them during the years of 1846-47? At that time I believe the district was very thickly populated, because we can see numerous old ruins almost in every field pointed out to us still which I understand were occupied by inhabitants at that time. The same year the potato crop got stricken by the blight, which rendered a complete failure every-where, and poor people were in such distress that thousands of them died with starvation because

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Cornelius Tringle

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   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Timothy Tringle

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   Cill Rónáin Thiar, Co. Chorcaí