Scoil: Coole (uimhir rolla 3936)
- Suíomh:
- An Chúil, Co. na hIarmhí
- Múinteoir: T. Mac Cormaic
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)to take two or three turnips out of a crop of turnips (out of a crop) before her cottage. She says only for crops of turnips they would all be dead with hunger.
The people suffered from hunger in the year 1846. This townland was very poor and could not afford to buy food. It was very late in the year the people then lived on chicken weed and wild birds. People used to be seen trying to catch wild birds and beasts to provide for themselves and their families.
Farmers had to sell their grain so as to pay their rates. Poor people who grew no grain or crops had to sell their only stock or beasts they had.
Peggy Meehan
Clonave, Coole, Co. Westmeath.
Told to me by Kate Keenagh,
Clonave, Coole, Co. Westmeath.- Bailitheoir
- Peggy Meehan
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- Seoladh
- An Chúil, Co. na hIarmhí
- Faisnéiseoir
- Kate Keenagh
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- An Chúil, Co. na hIarmhí