School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 028
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- The famine occurred in the years 1847 and '48. The cause of the famine was the potato crop failed to grow. A great number of people died of hunger and they used to be found dead by the road-side with the sign of grass on their mouths.
They were often buired without any coffins, and 20 or 30 persons were trown into to-gether and a ditch trown down on the bodies.
Very seldom they were taken to the grave-yard as the people were afraid to touch the bodies because a disease followed the famine.
The ruins of several small houses can be seen in many places in the district, where families lived during the famine. There are three cills[?] in the neighbourhood. One in Killmacrane in Charles McCarthy's farm, another in Coolroemore in Denis Connor's land and the third(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chéilleachair
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Bean Uí Chéilleachair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lyre, Co. Cork
