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School: Dysert (roll number 8640)

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Dysart, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
C. Nic Eochagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 481

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  1. The Famine

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    About ninty years ago there was a famine.
    Years before the famine the potatoes grew very plentifully. They grew so well that no manure was needed at all for them.
    They were so plentiful that there was no value for them. The potatoes were thrown in the big dykes in the fields and leave them to rot.
    When the farmer would be ploughing he used to drive the horses through the potato holes
    In "black '47" a blight came on the potatoes the first time that the blight ever came on the potatoes.
    The rotted when
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Thomas Meehan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 56
    Address
    Dysart, Co. Westmeath