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School: Tairbeart (C.)

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Tarbert, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0404, Page 076

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    The horrors of the Great Famine 1846-47 are still told by our firesides.
    A blight came in the potatoes and the crops failed all over. The poor people were most stricken for they had no money to buy anything in our district.
    The people ate raw turnips, weeds and sea weed. They boiled the weeds in salt and they ate nothing with the weed. They rooted up the rotten potatoes which were blighted in the gardens. This caused fever. The year after the blight they had no seed to set potatoes.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena Mc Namara
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballygoghlan, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    James Mc Namra
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Ballygoghlan, Co. Limerick