Scoil: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (C.) (uimhir rolla 6845)
- Suíomh:
- Caisleán Ó Liatháin, Co. Chorcaí
- Múinteoir: S. Ní Mhuchadha
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- Old people still tell stories of the famine times 1846-1847.
It affected this district very much.
The district was very thickly populated before that time.
Sites of houses then occupied and now in ruins are still pointed out.
Mackesys' house near the school, is said to have been a hospital, before the present cottage was built on the site.The potatoes were so plentiful that they were left unnoticed in the ground - they didn't bother to pit them. They got black in the ground and white rot appeared.
The seed potatoes for the following year were imported from England.The people ate Indian meal and cornkale instead, also tops of turnips.
The American government sent cargoes of Indian meal.
People died in great numbers here. Great sickness followed the hunger.