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mazbonks
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Famine in Sligo
« on: Saturday 17 January 09 13:49 GMT (UK) »
Extract from a letter from a gentleman at Sligo
Times Archives -  Friday May 27th 1831

“When I recollect that tomorrow is only the 1st of April I look forward with horror to the state of this country in two or three months, judging from what I witnessed yesterday.  The beach between Inniscrone and Pulocherry was quire covered with women, picking the common black sea-weed off the rocks, which, I am told, they carry home to the mountains and boil for food to eke out their few remaining potatoes. What is to become of them in June or July, I know not.  I think when the tide was out there could not have been less than 3,000 persons employed as I have stated
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Christopher
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Re: Famine in Sligo
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 23 April 09 23:33 BST (UK) »
The following link contains notes which have been  extracted from various volumes relating to the effects of the Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor).

www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlsli/famine.html
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