School: Currans (B.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 4459)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Daniel Kerrisk
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 237
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- The Great Famine of 1846-47 did not affect this district very much. However it was more thickly populated then than ever since. People can still point out sites of houses which were then occupied and are now in ruins and some gone altogether save a little Elder tree, white thorn or a few stones to mark the site.
The blight came in the potato crop on the ground in most cases but in a few they blackened and decayed in the pits.
There are no accounts of the seed-potato for the following year.
The food of the people was Indian-meal. Meal and milk, the flesh of the cow, calf, pig, the various fowl by the richer class who shared with their poor neighbours for work done in the farm such as reclaiming and draining the land.
The people did not die in any great numbers nor did great sickness follow the hunger.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Terence Mac Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardcrone, Co. Kerry
