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School: Rosmead (roll number 7212)

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Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
E. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 101

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    There are stories told about the Famine in 1846. The people were illtreated by the English Laws. They were starved with hunger and they had nothing to eat. They had potatoes a while but when the blight came on them they rotted away in the ground and in the pits. It affected this district very much the people were dying by the score with hunger.
    The district was very thickly populated before the Famine. There were a good many houses occupied in our district before the Famine but are in ruins now. Red Máire, Judy Lynch, Kit Quinn, Pat Croughan, James Carr had houses in Mulliganstown and are in ruins now. There was a priest Father. T. Matthew and he gave the pledge to the people against drinking but the people broke the pledge and then the blight came on the potatoes and the potatoes rotted in the ground and in the pits and when
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Gaffney
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Dennis Larkin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Clonarney, Co. Westmeath