School: Baile Nua, Tulach an Iarainn (roll number 5093)
- Location:
- Ballynoe, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Briain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0380, Page 128
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- Most people are familiar with the story of the famine years, and the horrors of the period are almost unbelievable.
The failure of the potatoes, the main food of the Irish people, was responsible for the fact that thousands of people died of hunger. Others fell ill from eating grass, and roots, and it was a common thing to find whole families dead in their houses. They were buried without coffins or proper funerals as to leave them lying around was dangerous owing to disease.
As a rule several corpses were interred in one large grave, as this was the quickest way to bury them.
The Protestants provided soup for all those who gave up their Faith, and the name "soupers" was given to apostates. The Ballynoe people(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynattin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Joseph O Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynattin, Co. Cork
