Scoil: Hollymount (uimhir rolla 13122)
- Suíomh:
- An Cloichreán Beag, Co. Liatroma
- Múinteoir: Philip Carrigan
Tagairt chartlainne
Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0206, Leathanach 637
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- XML Scoil: Hollymount
- XML Leathanach 637
- XML “Famine Times”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- People tell stories of the "Famine Times" as it affected this district.
The district was chiefly populated and the sites of houses are still pointed out.
The Blight was unknown.
One stormy night in June the Blights came on the crop and destroyed it.
Three men would not get a stone of potatoes after the days work.
The seed potatoes the following year were sown broadcast like grain. This produced a wonderful crop.
Oaten grass boiled and salted was the peoples' food.
No Government help was given in 1846-47.
Great numbers took Yellow Fever & died.
Others went to America and the story is told of four people of this who with others set sail for America.
They dried back to Ireland.
One of them came home - the other three made a second attempt but were lost.
In 1879 the 'Potato Crop' again failed.(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
- Faisnéiseoir
- F. Daid
- Inscne
- Fireann
- Seoladh
- An Cloichreán Mór, Co. Liatroma
