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School: Mainistir na Croise, Thurles (roll number 1811)

Location:
Holycross, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Liam Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0554, Page 001T

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    The old people have many stories about the great famine. The famine affected this district very much. Before the time of the famine the district was more thickly populated. But when the famine came many people died with hunger and with sickness. The reason for the famine was that the people were very poor. They depended mostly on the potato crop. In the year eighteen forty six the potato crop failed, the potatoes decayed in the ground and in the pits. There was plenty of wheat in the country at that time but the people had to sell the wheat to pay the rent. The rents of the farm were very big then and the people were very poor. The people who had money went to foreign countries for then the potato crop failed they saw nothing facing them
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Philip Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killeenyarda, Co. Tipperary