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School: Cloncovid

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Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 161

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    Long ago the people lived mostly on their own produce. They lived on potatoes and stirabout. They made oaten bread and boxty and they used potatoes and buttermilk for their dinner. In the year 1846 in the harvest of the year a strange disease came over the potatoes and they withered away. That year the potatoes was a failure.
    The people had the oats and they sold it to the English government.
    The next year
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullaghoran, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Patrick Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mullaghoran, Co. Cavan