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1. Famine Stories

   

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   1. Stampy Bread - It was made with black potatoes not rotten, and yellow meal. A grater was nailed on to a piece of timber, and the potatoes were rubbed up and down on it till they were like powder. Then yellow meal was added, as well as milk. It was baked like an ordinary cake, and was supposed to be very sweet.

   2. Soup Houses - There was a soup house at Kanturk Union, and another at Gurteenard, Kanturk. Often fathers of big families used to come to these houses from Millstreet, (11 miles distant), and it is said that they used to sit down on the roadside, with hunger and weakness, and eat what they had got for their children. Often they used to be heard crying with hunger coming along the roads. There was another "Meal House", at Clonmeen, Banteer, Co Cork, at the place where Tom Mannix, now resides.

   3. The Parish Coffin - When the people died during the Famine Times, in the Banteer district, an account used to be sent to the Union, at Kanturk. Men would come from the Union with the "Parish Coffin", which had hinges at the bottom, so that they could dump the corpses into the grave from it, and use it again for

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   Béarla

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   John Barry

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   Fireann

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   Bántír, Co. Chorcaí

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   Mrs Mary Cronin

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   Baineann

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   Bántír, Co. Chorcaí