Scoil: Tullaghanstown (uimhir rolla 9605)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   suffered very much from hunger and poverty, as the large majority of Irish people lived on the land namely by growing potatoes, wheat and oats.
   The year before the 1846 and '47 famine the potatoe crops was so plentiful that the people were not able to use the quarter of them and at the end of the season they grew through the pits, and had to be carted away and scattered broad cast.
   We are told that "Willful waste is woeful want."
   The following year the blight came on the potatoe crop, so that all the potatoes failed to grow and what did grow rotted. The people were so poor they could not afford to buy bread or meat and a terrible lot of people died of hunger whilst thousands emigrated.
   The country at that time was thickly populated and now it is seen in parts of the country, end of walls, where people lived at

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   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. an gorta mór (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Tommie Tuite

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Baile an Tulcháin, Co. na Mí

   Faisnéiseoir

   Bennie Tuite

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   54

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Baile an Tulcháin, Co. na Mí