Scoil: Teach Mhic Conaill (uimhir rolla 15614)
- Suíomh:
- Teach Mhic Conaill, Co. Ros Comáin
- Múinteoir: M. Ó Tuathaig
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0270, Leathanach 059
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- XML Scoil: Teach Mhic Conaill
- XML Leathanach 059
- XML “Famine Times”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- Old people have heard from their fathers and grandfathers many stories about the terrible famine of eighteen forty-six and forty-seven. The famine years were and are still called 'Black forty-six and forty-seven'.It affected the district very much. There is only one family at the present day where sixteen and eighteen families were before the famine. A terrible lot of people died in the district, but few ruins of houses now remain as they are nearly all gone. It is said that the year prior to the famine year the potatoes were so plentiful that the people could afford to throw them beside walls and ditches and into bogholes, and that was the time potatoes were first called 'spuds'. The potato crop failed at first, it is said, by a terrible frost which came and ate them all up. They rotted in the ground. The people sowed the buds the following year for seed. Some managed to gather a few very small potatoes. They shook the buds broadcast like grain.The people had Indian meal for food instead, from which they made stirabout. It is said that an old Mrs. Galvin, who(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
- Bailitheoir
- Mollie Costello
- Inscne
- Baineann
- Faisnéiseoir
- John Galvin
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- Fireann
- Seoladh
- Knock, Co. Ros Comáin
