School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 038
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- The year of the Famine times was in eighteen hundred and forty six, and eighteen hundred and forty seven. A great plague came over the country at that times and people died in great numbers with it.
The people at that time had to live on very little food, because it was very dear and very scarce.The potatoes got a disease also and they were so scarce that the people had to cut the eye out of them to sow for seed, and they had to eat the rest so that is all they had to live on. Food became scarcer and scarcer, and alot of the people went away to America. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Mary Sweeney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyvergin, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Fox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford