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1. Famine Times

   

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   The famine of 1846 and 1847 was caused by the failure of the potato cro[ as the chief food of the people at that time was the potato. For a few years preceding the famine the crop was so plentiful that the potatoes were piled along the ditches where a great many of them decayed as it was impossible to use them all. The district of Crosserlough was very thickly populated. The ruins of some of the houses are still to be seen. The people who lived in those houses had no land and where therefore very poor. In the year 1846 the blight came on the potato plants the tubers decayed in the ground and the crop was almost useless, although the people dug the ground twice so as not to lose a single potato. They also dug the oats ground where potatoes had grown the previous year in an effort to procure even a small quantity of potatoes. The following year the seed potatoes were so scarce that, the splits being so small were sown like corn or grain. The people ate turnips and any other vegetables they could get. Men working on roads were

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   Shaun Briody

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   Páirc na Carraige, Co. an Chabháin

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   Mr John Mc Cabe

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   86

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   Leacht na dTruánach, Co. an Chabháin

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   Mr Philip Lynch

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   80

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   Páirc na Carraige, Co. an Chabháin