School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The "black forty seven" as it is known in the district was the year of the famine. It started in the year eighteen forty five and wasn't properly over for twenty years afterwards. This district was very thickly populated before that time. It effected the district very much. In eighteen forty six, the potatoe-stalks changed in one night to a black waste. The people never saw anything like it before, and they did not know what it was. They dug the potatoes and put them in the pits and when Winter came the potatoes rotted.
The people had no food instead and they ate cabbage and turnip stumps. After a while the famine-fever came on. Some landlords went to England to escape the famine, others remained in Ireland to help their tenants. One Landlord, Mr. Richard White of Inchiclough House died of famine-fever taken while helping his tenants. The ruins of his house are still standing. People died in hundreds by the roadsides and in the fields. Two men were employed every day with(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kitty Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr E. O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork