School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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- Informant
- Hugh Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Kilfintan, Co. Longford
- The year of the famine was about ninty years ago. A lot of people died in this locality from starvation. The blight came and destroyed all the potatoes that were(continues on next page)