1844, Evidence of Michael Sullivan, Labourer, Abbeystrewry, Skibbereen, 5 children he would wish to be near National School, 6d per day if farmer employs him to whom he pays £2 for an acre and £1 for house. Labours away in Limerick and Tipperary digging Potatoes. Wife makes 2 shillings 6 d to 3 shillings a week from eggs poultry not allowed near farmer’s cornfield. One chaff bed, diet of dry potatoes, no milk, one pig obliged to keep in house, would emigrate cannot afford to do so,
1844, Evidence of Michael Sullivan, Labourer, Abbeystrewey, Skibbereen, 5 children he would wish to be near National School, 6d per day if farmer employs him to whom he pays £2 for an acre and £1 for house. Labours away in Limerick and Tipperary digging Potatoes. Wife makes 2 shillings 6 d to 3 shillings a week from eggs poultry not allowed near farmer’s corn field. One chaff bed, diet of dry potatoes, no milk, one pig obliged to keep in house, would emigrate cannot afford to do so
28 Sunday Jun 2015
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West Cork History 
This is an utterly amazing document, and answered every question I had regarding the Irish, and why they were so pervasively and strikingly oppressed into poverty. It was a system in which one, was simply blocked at every single turn and minute manner from improving one’s circumstances; and why the Irish starved despite being for the later part, surrounded by access to an ocean, and living in an agrarian based society.
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