School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 19_009
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- (continued from previous page)double what it is now more than eight and a half million, the disaster in a thickly populated country was fearful. About a million people died of hunger and disease.
In these dread famine years the hunger stricken and fever stricken people died not only in their houses, but in the fields, on the roads, in the ditches in the streets of the cities.
- Collector
- Seán D. Ó Loinsigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Átha Chroim, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Patrick Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Uí Odhragáin, Co. Chiarraí
