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School: Cruimghlinn (roll number 15967)

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Crumlin, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0093, Page 131

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    grave without a coffin. Some of them had a few stones of potatoes left. They set them and also the buds they broke off and they grew potatoes.
    They shook the chaff and oats grew and the people were all glad of that as they could eat enough. The next year came and they set the chaff and the buds of potatoes but they did not grow.
    I got the above information from my mother.
    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
    Delia Timlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnykinaff, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs M Timlin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnykinaff, Co. Mayo