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School: Fleasgach (roll number 15842)

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Flaskagh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0012, Page 447

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    Famine 24-11-'38
    There was a great hunger in the country the time of the famine. The people managed to get seed the following year by digging up the soil where the oats grew the previous year. Some of the people got seed in from foreign countries. There did a lot of people die during the famine. The people lived on oatmeal the time of the Famine. There did so many people die that time that they had to be buried in the fields.
    Writer: Mary Raftery
    Clougher
    Ballinlough
    Co Roscommon
    Teller: Matthew Raftery
    Clougher
    Ballinlough
    Co Roscommon
    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
    Collector
    Mary Raftery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clogher Upper, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Matthew Raftery
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clogher Upper, Co. Roscommon