School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

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1. The Famine

   

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   Long ago during the famine there were special houses in which they stored meal. They also kept a big pot in the house in which they used boil the meal. Certain people were in charge of these houses and used give the meal to the people that used come for it. One day a man having eaten too quickly got choked and died immediately. Another man ate an overdose of it and also died. He was buried in the dyke of the road. One of these houses was in the neighbourhood of Lowertown.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Roycroft

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dunbeacon, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mrs Scofield

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   74

   Address

   Dunbeacon, Co. Cork

2. Epidemic

   

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   In the year 1918 a great epidemic swept the whole country. It followed the war. Many people both young and old died of it in this locality.

   

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3. A Shipwreck

   

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   About eighty years ago or so a ship whose name was the "Lady Charlet" was wrecked off the coast

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