School: Mullach Ruadh (roll number 10654)
- Location:
- Mullaghroe, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Nia
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- (continued from previous page)The next spring half of the people died of hungar. At that time people depended on the potatoes as their principal food because they had no flour. America sent two cargoes of Indian meal to Ireland but the English delayed the ships in the harbours and would not let them land for a long time.The people had no nourishment and a fever broke out. When half of the people were dead the government gave relief. In my district there was a road made about four miles long. The men that worked on it got a few pence a day or if they liked they would get Indian meal. Indian meal was better than it is now and you could make porridge from it.The Government sent men round the country with coffins to search the houses and any corpse they found they were to bury it.To pay the rents the people had to sell their oats or the landlords would put them out.
- Collector
- Alice O Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moygara, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James O Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moygara, Co. Sligo
