School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 230
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- Two men from Drumgutter gave two boilers of Indian Meal to the people.
There was a man from Ballymakenny one day when Biddy Mac Evoy was going to Drogheda and she saw him eating a turnip and when she was going home he was dead.
About thirty people died in a day & they used to bury them in fields and on the side of the road.
The potatoes rotted in thousands and Granny's father when he went out to get potatoes they were all rotten and the day before that they were all right, and it affected the district very much.
Great sickness followed the hunger.
The blight came with the lightning, because there used to be a lot of lightning
The people do not talk about it now. Sir John Robinson was landlord and when the people would go to pay the rent there would be a great dinner.
The Government gave money to make roads and they made them all right.
A few of them went to America. Grannie's mother(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mona Levins
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs J. Walsh
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Louth
