Scoil: Dunlavin (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   many more people in this district but most of them were old. Very few young people died during the famine. Although the famine was not bad here the young people got such such a shock that the fled to foreign lands leaving the old people and real young people behind them. There are no ruins of houses in which people perished during the famine
   Outside the wall of the present Tournant grave yard there are two fairly big mounds which are believed were the graves of the few victims who perished during the famine.
   The potatoes began to decay in the drills after appearing over ground.
   So far as I can find out the people got potatoes from England by way of relief and by that means managed to save a small quantity for seed for the following year. They used the "Craosleáns" as food for themselves, they also used nettles and water-cress. The Government relief reached this district.
   There was little or no hunger after the famine only a scarcety of

   (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

   Michael Carey

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Dún Luáin, Co. Chill Mhantáin

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs J. Valentine

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   74

   Seoladh

   Dún Luáin, Co. Chill Mhantáin