School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)
- Location:
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Gallagher
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 454
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- The famine visited Ireland during the years eighteen hundred and forty-six and forty-seven.
According to accounts from the old people they suffered very much owing to the failure of the potato crop.
Provisions were very dear and hard to get for the necessaries of life.
Those were the years that most of our roads were made to relieve the poor people.
There was also meal divided amongst the poor which was sent from America and one stone had to do each family for one week.
My great Grandmother told my Father they used to draw oaten meal from Drogheda and sell it out again. On their way home some of the meal sealed out of the bags down on the road and my great Grandmother saw the women and children following the carts and licking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Donohue
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Drumard, Co. Longford
- Informant
- John J. Donohue
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumard, Co. Longford
