School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)
- Location:
- Droing, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: James Drum
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 145
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- During the famine the people of Ireland starved. It lasted during 1846 and 1847.
The potatoes were blighted all the time, and the people died of starvation. The country was thickly populated then. There were about 80 houses in the townland of Aughakilmore with big families in most of them. There was very little tea, sugar, bread, flour, or bacon to be found in the country during that time.
Ever since the famine the potatoes take the blight unless they are sprayed with blue stone and washing-soda melted in water.
- Collector
- Patricia Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Achadh Cille Móire, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Peter Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Achadh Cille Móire, Co. an Longfoirt
