School: Doirín Árd, Béal Átha an Dá Chab (roll number 15969)
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- Cappagh More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dubhgáin
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- Long long ago in the years 1846 and 1847 there was a great famine. The poor people had nothing to eat. They used only go out in the fields and they used eat the turnips that were growing in the fields. They usedn't even boil the turnips only eat them without boiling them at all.
Of course no one could possibly live with that feeding. Indeed those people did not live long. Day after(continues on next page)