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Famine times in Annaghdown : [ An Gorta Mór ]

Annaghdown Heritage Society = Cumann Oidhreachta Eanach Dhúin
Books, Manuscripts
Inphrionta:
Galway : Annaghdown Heritage Society, 1997.
Leathanaigh in ord:
[6], 50, [16]; ills (b.&w), A5.
Teideal a bhaineann le príomhtheideal:
Cover title: An Gorta Mór : Famine times in Annaghdown (cover title).
Contents:
foreword -- an introduction: the Famine in Ireland -- sickness, disease & death [hints about fever -- destitution in Claregalway 1849 -- Kirwans of Cregg -- Annaghdown Parish statistics 1841-1851 (houses, population) -- famine relief -- distress in Annaghdown -- auction of household of Henry J Blake, Cahermorriss (Cahermorris House (photo)) -- Annaghdown Relief Committee (estd. 1847, Chairman Francis Blake, Cregg Castle; soup kitchen, soup recipe) -- Quarter Acre or Gregory Clause] -- Land, less land & the land of the free [lands to let -- advertisements -- ad. for passage on new brig Alice 12jan1847 -- Search for Friends, Boston Pilot -- female orphans to Australia on Thomas Arbuthnot -- fairs -- failure of potatoe crop 1846 -- exports of grain -- emigration -- Amhrán na Mine (dán) (poem in Irish in praise of Major Kirwan, Castlehackett House) -- Cuimhní (dán le Cáit Congaoile 1997) ] -- School essay: the Great Famine / Jason Lydon (age 12) -- Parish handwritten document 1847 [of the Parish applotments for 1847 listing names, addresses of each plot] -- bibliography -- Daniel O'Connell 1775-1847 -- photos of pupils at Corrandulla Boys' School 1937 -- advertisements for local businesses [1997].
ISBN:
050549 (invalid)
Rangúchán Dewey:
941.74081
I dteanga:
English
BRN:
420675
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