School: Cnoc na Biolaraighe
- Location:
- Watergrasshill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dll. Mac Carrthaigh
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- I heard her tell this
Story of the Famine-
A family lived at the time at the western side of this parish. They were farmers on a fairly large scale and had several cows, so that they had plenty of milk, butter and eggs and other foods as substitutes for the potato, so that they did not suffer as much as many of their less fortunate neighbours.
Near their gate, however, there was a poor family who were in dire straits. They had no potatoes and were literally starving. When the children were lying ill and calling for food their mother could stand it no longer, and she went one day to theh farm house to beg for food for the children.
She was reluctant to do this for these poor people(continues on next page)