Scoil: Cill Tormóir (Kiltormer) (Buachaillí)

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1. The Great Famine

   

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   The Great Famine

   In the year 1847 there was a great famine in Ireland. The chief cause of it was the failure of the potato crop. At that time the potato was the chief food of the Irish people so that when it failed the people had not other food and they died in thousands.

   At that time every farmer had about five acres of land. The people had to make ridges in the swampy places and sow the potatoes in them. The year of the famine was a very wet year and the crops were covered with water for about two months and every one of the potatoes rotted in the ridges. When the famine was nearly over the English Government began to start relief schemes. They began to make roads. Nearly all those roads are closed up now. One of these roads is running through my father's farm but it is closed up. There are also the remains of houses on the farm. During the famine times when the people were not able to pay the rent the landlord hunted them out of the houses. Once when my father was making a ditch he found the whitewash which the people used to put on the walls.

   Laurence Kilkenny, Ballyturick, Kiltormer, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.

   

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   Laurence Kilkenny

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