School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
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- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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- The Famine Years 1846-1847, 6-8-38
In the Famine Years the people of this area suffered more than any other people in the County. They were starving with the hunger, as they had nothing to eat, only yellow-meal-porage. They were dying in large numbers along the roadside. There are a great many houses levelled since the time of the Famine.
Tomas Asple, Gulbally, Ballyhogue, Co. Wexford, has two ruins of houses on his premises, which were occupied by James Fardy, Galbally, Ballyhogue, Co. Wexford, and Matty Cody, Townfarney, Bree, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford during the Famine years.
The potato crop were all black by the blight when they were dug by the people. The next year the people had no seed to sow and the Government had to supply them with seed to sow.Told by: Mr. M Shannon, Galbally, Ballyhogue, Co. Wexford
Written by: Peter Shannon, Galbally, Ballyhogue, Co. Wexford.- Collector
- Peter Shannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr M. Shannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- In the Famine times a great blight came on the potato crop and it failed.
This blight came in 1846 in little black spots on the leaves, and after a while the leaves witered away. Then the(continues on next page)