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School: Edraguil (roll number 11225)

Location:
Edergole, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
C. Nic Philip
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0944, Page 251

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    The years of the famine were (1845 and 1846) the worst years ever Ireland had. The potato crops failed. The crop was good enough to look at but when the potatoes were touched they just went in to smash hundreds died of hunger.
    It was pitiful to see able bodied men and women going through the streets looking for food. They poked through dung hills and other places hoping to find something to appease their hunger.
    With eating such things cholera set in and the death roll was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Mc Keown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Monage, Co. Monaghan