School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)

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1. Famine Times

   

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   It is said that the potato stalks were left in the ground and that small potatoes, about the size of marbles, grew under them. In some of these one eye was found. These were planted the following year and so the people procured seed. (for the following year.) Government relief reached this district. Meal was distributed at Farranfore. A story is told of a man who lived in a cabin on the farm now owned by Mick O'Sullivan, bragg. He was starving and set out for Farranfore where he expected some meal. He got the meal but when he was nearly home he dropped dead by the roadside.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Griffin

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Daniel Scannell

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   79

   Address

   Ardcrone, Co. Kerry

2. Famine Times (continued)

   

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   A woman and her husband lived near Currens in a little cabin. One day when she had but little potatoes a poor starving woman came to her and begged for some. She gave her what she had. No sooner had the woman gone than she remembered

   

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