School: Cormaddyduff
- Location:
- Cormaddyduff, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghiolla Sheanain
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- (continued from previous page)their way. If they died there were houses where a man would be sent round the country with a cart every morning giving a small supply of Stirabout to the people. There is a house in Knocktemple still known as the Stirabout house. The year of the famine was the first year that Indian Meal was imported into Ireland. It was a common thing to see people dead by the roadside with the track of neetles on their mouths. The potatoes known as Scotch-downs were then brought into the country. The famine ended in 1849 but it was years after before the people recovered from its effects.
Recorded by my Grandmother,
Margaret Reilly.
- Collector
- Harry O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Margaret Reilly
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cormaddyduff, Co. an Chabháin
