School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)
- Location:
- Lios Béalaid, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Héigcearrtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0303, Page 333
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- Mary Kelly
- Gender
- Female
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- Mrs Ellen Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Draighneach Thoir, Co. Chorcaí
- In the year 1845 the population of Ireland was between eight and nine million people, the majority of them chiefly depended on agriculture or subsistence. In the south and west the people lived by agriculture alone. They depended entirely on the potato crop for food. The potato blight began in Ireland in the autumn of 1845 and same again the following year. In 1847 a great calamity befell the country. Not a county in Ireland escaped the potato disease and many of the southern and western counties were soon in actual famine. A peculiar form of fever, famine fever it was called, began to show itself(continues on next page)
