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School: Currans (B.), Fearann Fuar (roll number 4459)

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Currans, Co. Kerry
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Daniel Kerrisk
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 238

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  1. Famine Times (continued)

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    People do not talk of other periods of famine due to the failure of the potato-crop.
    There are a few furze bushes growing beside the road in a field which belongs now to John McCarthy Cragg Farranfore which mark it is said the grave of one poor victim of the famine. The remains of this poor person were being carried by friends from Castlemaine to be buried in Kilsarcon, or Killeentierna. Those poor people were so worn out from hunger that they could go no farther and had to bury the remains there.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Terence Mac Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ardcrone, Co. Kerry