School: Ballylongford (C.) (roll number 11019)
- Location:
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Bheoláin
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- There was a great famine in Ireland in the years 1846 and 1847. The district of Ahanagran was very thickly populated before that, but the famine effected it very much, and the people died in great numbers in their own homes and near the ditches.
A disease called "Black Scab" came on the potatoes and they could not be used. This disease came on them in the ground and in the pits. Some of the potatoes escaped, and the people cut the eyes out of them, and kept them for seed, for the following year, and they ate the rest of them.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sarah Dee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghanagran Middle, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jeremiah Dee
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghanagran Middle, Co. Kerry