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School: Tír na nEascrach

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Tiranascragh, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eamonn Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0058, Page 0208

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    people put cart loads of them in "jolts" on the bog road and when the Famine came they scraped up the mud off the bog road looking for bits of the potatoes. Over 80 families lived in the Mooneen in great poverty (only 10 families live in the townland now). There was no workhouse in Portumna in 1847 so when the people got the hunger and the fever they went to Ballinasloe 15 miles away. Most of them were turned away as there was no room for them but the matron gave them a quart jar of castor oil to take home.
    John Bohan has this
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John E. Bohan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tiranascragh, Co. Galway