sentences:  Bantry were indicted at the general assizes and gaol delivery at Cork
  
  In March 1741 Thomas Prior founder of the RDS said that Sir Thomas Cox of Dunmanway related that due to a failure of the potato crop 500 people had died in his area.Around 350,000 people died including one fifth of Munster's population.It was referred to as Bliain an Air, the year of the slaughter.