School: Cor Dubh (roll number 13806)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 058
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- The Famine occurred in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven owing to the failure of the potato crop. At that time the people had to pay very heavy rents, so that everyone had to sell corn to pay the land lord.When the corn was all sold there was no meal to make bread or porridge. There were no potatoes either, and the people starved, and thousands deid with hunger. During that year the people were going through the fields where the potatoes were set tossing the clay with sticks and spades for even the smallest little potato or the seed that was covered with clay.Then some meal was got from England, and some people would not eat it, because they said there was poison on it to kill them.
- Collector
- Patrick Marron
- Gender
- Male
