School: Ráth an Bharraigh, Clanna Caoilte (roll number 9067)
- Location:
- Castlefreke, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Grífín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0316, Page 029
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- The famine was very bad in this district as the people were depending on the potatoes for food. Some of the potatoes rotted while growing and more of them rotted in the pits. Hundreds of people were dying of fever and starvation so that there was not time to bury them and many people were thrown coffinless into corners of fields. Women could be seen taking the dead bodies of their children on their backs to the graveyard and burying them there. Hundreds of people died on their way to the poor house but that was so full that it could not hold half of them that reached it. The second year of the Famine the people were doubtful about the setting of the potatoes so they cut the eyes out of the potatoes and scattered them over the field as people scatter corn to day.
Lady Carbery helped the distressed of this district by giving them maize which they(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr James Spillane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilkeran, Co. Cork
