School: Loughduff (C.)
- Location:
- Loughduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 178
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- The old people say that in eighteen hundred and forty-six the potatoes blackened and crops failed and a great famine followed.
The people died of hunger. The district was very thickly populated before that time. Some people went to America and more died along the roadside.
They point out sights where old houses were build and are now in ruins.
A disease followed which nearly killed all the people in the district. The Government sent seed which was sown broad cast like oats. They also sent Indian meal to feed the people which was distributed by the pound.
- Collector
- Maggie Galligan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Galligan
- Gender
- Male
