Scoil: Cor na Fola (C.) (uimhir rolla 3604)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   then they used to carry them out in the coffin and they used to come to the trench they would open the bottom of the coffin and let the corpse drop down. There are several ruins in this district. On some farms there are ten or twelve old ruins which were occupied the time of the famine. The old people say that there were twenty six families in my village the time of the famine and now there are five. Some say it was foreign seed that first caused the blight in this country. How the blight was noticed first was black spots on the leaves of the potato stalks. Then the stalk would be completely withered away in a few days. Then under the stalks there would be very small potatoes and they would be all black. Very few people sowed them the next year. But those who sowed them, sowed them broadcast like grain. The food the people had instead was oatmeal and wheatmeal. The Government aid reached the district but it was very little availed. The year after the famine the railway was made from Athlone to Ballinasloe, and the first engine that ran from Athlone to Ballinasloe was called Juno.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Bridie Macken

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Lisdillure, Co. Ros Comáin