School: A Cnoc Buí, Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 9588)
- Location:
- Knockeenbwee Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0300, Page 279
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- There are no stories around this district about the great famine of 1847 and 1848. It affected this district very much.The district was thickly populated before this time. There is a farm in the town-land of Drinagh and there were eighteen families living there in famine days where there is only one man now. There was about five families living where there is only one now. People still point out sites of houses then occupied and now in ruins. All the potatoes decayed in the pits. They picked the eyes out of the potatoes with a quill and eat the rest of them. They sowed the eyes of the potatoes and they had plenty of potatoes the year after. It was in ridges the potatoes were sown.They had Indian meal(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Siobhan Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahanaght, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Liam Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lahanaght, Co. Cork
