School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)

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1. Card-Playing (continued)

   

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   coffin. The little man asked the man that was coming from rambling would he have a game. The man went home and never played a card since.

   

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2. The Famine Years

   

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   The famine years started in the harvest of 1846. The potatoes all rotted in the ground. Four millions of the died some of starvation and some of disease. Most of the cattle died too. Bread was the only thing that they could buy and it was very scarce. The oats crop grew alright and anyone who had it, used to get it ground in the mill and made into oat meal. Then they could make plenty of porridge. There was an hospital in grouse lodge. The people nearly dead, used to go there and often they were got on the road side. When they were dead they were all buried in one large pit and covered with sods and stone. In 1848 crops were very plentiful any crop that was sowed grew. People who were young and had nothing to get at home went roving about from place to place trying to get food for themselves

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brigid Corristine

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killadiskert, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   James Mc Partlan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Address

   Corchuill Lower, Co. Leitrim