School: Maoilinn (C.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)Wherever seed was put in ground, the hunger-maddened victims rooted it out and ate it raw. No crops were raised and no rent paid. There was food in abundance in the country :- such as corn but the Government said it should not be touched.
After all the starvation in the country a terrible disease came the following years and killed nearly as many people that died during the famine.- Collector
- Katty Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr D. Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meelin, Co. Cork