School: Britway (Bréachmhagh) (roll number 3993)

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1. The Famine Times (continued)

   

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   and come back every morning to teach in the school. When they were digging the potatoes in the fields, it was then they decayed in the ground. They had nothing to eat then but a few turnips. If they had a few cows they would kill them for food. They got the seed potatoes for the following year across from Scotland and from Wales. Or they would have little potatoes left over, and they would have the seed out of them.

   

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2. The Famine Times

   

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   There were houses at that time in every fifty yards of the road in the district. The old ruins of a good many of them are still to be seen, but no one knows who lived in them, as the old stock who survived the famine for many years are either dead or emigrated.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Francis Mac Carthy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyvolane, Co. Cork

3. The Famine Times

   

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   The government relief reached this district and a road was started in Ballyogaha

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