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School: Kilgobnet

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Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
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Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 376

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  1. The Bad Times

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    The people of this district went through lots of hardships during the bad times when the potato crop which was their chief food at that time failed.
    There was much more houses in this district long ago than there is now but a great number of people died during the bad times. The ruins of their houses are still to be seen scattered in many places through the district. The blight came just (came) when the potatoes were growing in the ridges and the young stalks were coming above the ground.
    The next year their Landlord got seed for them from Scotland and they set them in ridges and they never had a better or more bountiful crop of potatoes than they had that year.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Cahill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Shanacloon, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs James Cahill
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Shanacloon, Co. Kerry