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School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)

Location:
Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269D, Page 06_021

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    This district was very thickly populated before the famine of 1847. There were a lot of houses on the roadside and all through the fields of which no trace exists now.
    In some places the walls of little garden are still to be seen; but the walls of the houses themselves have disappeared.
    When the potato stalks withered in 1847 the people thought it was the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosey Cruise
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrycahill, Co. Roscommon