Potato Famine - What is a Scalpeen?While some displaced families could only find shelter by digging a Scalp (a hole in the Earth or a bog), others - more fortunate, by far - created a home (called a Scalpeen) within abandoned (or ruined) houses. CreditsImage, and quoted passage, from "Conditions of Ireland: Illustrations of the New Poor-Law," an article from the December 15, 1849 issue of The Illustrated London News.
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