Scoil: Keelagh
- Suíomh:
- Caolach, Co. an Chabháin
- Múinteoir: Ellen Reilly
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- One of the greatest famines in Ireland was the famine of eighteen forty six and eighteen forty seven
This was caused by the failure of the potato crop. In the Autumn of eighteen forty five blight came on potatoes and when they were dug and put into pits they decayed
At that time the potato was the chief food of the people in Ireland for the oats had to be sold to pay the rent
When the potatoes failed a lot of the people died and others of them emigrated to America
In this district there was a lot of houses and now they are levelled to the ground and made into fields and there is only about half the population now in Ireland as there was a that time
The people were found dead along the road and there were so many dying that a lot of them had to buried coffinless
Sometimes there was a hole dug in graveyard and the dead bodies were(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Bailitheoir
- Charles Leonard
- Inscne
- Fireann
- Seoladh
- Mullach Luacharnach, Co. an Chabháin