School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 302
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- The Famine of 1846 affected this district very much. At that time it was very thickly populated. People can point out in every townland the ruins of the old houses. A terrible blight came that year and distroyed all the potatoe crops that the people were mostly depending on. The blight occured when the stalks were growing and the potatoes were only the size of bead-stones.
The people had very little seed for the following year. The rich people lived on porridge, and the poor people lived on Indian porridge. The Government gave free Indian meal, to some of the very(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Mc Keon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreenaseer, Co. Roscommon
