Here is a book that focuses on the Famine in Fermoy. To Die by Inches - The Famine in North East Cork published by Edward Garner, 1986, 1988 ISBN 0 907 568 03 3 Printed by The Litho Press, Midleton, Co. Cork. Ireland. 157 pages. Chapter I Overture (1845-1846) Chapter II The Black Year (1847) Chapter III The Grey Years (1848-1850) To quote one of the statistics in the appendix entitled Population Changes in the Fermoy Poor Law Union 1841-1851. p. 148 Fermoy Union 1841 total population 89,378 Fermoy Union 1851 total population 62,025 % change - 30.6 Dave