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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

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Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 606

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    The famine effected the district very much long ago. All the potatoes failed when the blight came on them and they decayed in the ground.
    When the people were ploughing the land they picked the small potatoes and broadcasted [?] them like grain. The food they used was oatcakes and boiled turnips and also nettles and water-cress.
    Some of the people got Goverment relief and the people died in great numbers. On walking the road they would get to or three dying by the way.
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    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
    Kitty Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meelick, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr Pat Ronan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrownlough, Co. Mayo