Scoil: Tullycasson

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1. The Famine

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The famine was in the years
   '46-'47-'48. Before the famine there were twice as many people in this parish as there is at present. In my own townland there are only two houses now, and before the famine there were five or six houses. Where there are only one family living now, there were three or four living that time. The people still point out places where there were houses, but they are now in ruins.

   The blight came on the potatoes in the ground in the summer of 1846, and destroyed them all. It was on the potatoes that all the people of this parish lived, and when they were destroyed the people had no food at all, and they began to die of hunger. Most of the people had a good crop of turnips and corn, and they used the turnips instead of the potatoes and they made oat meal from the corn. The Government sent meal to this place, and the people used to travel five and six miles to get the meal. It was called '' Indian Meal, '' and this was the

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   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

   Maura Dolan

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Tullytiernan, Co. an Chabháin

   Faisnéiseoir

   Michael Shannon

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ardvagh, Co. an Chabháin