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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

Location:
Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 608

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    The year of the famine some of the people were brought to America free and some of them died in the ships going over. The famine affected the district very much. It was very thickly populated before that time. Some old people point out sites of houses that were then occupied and are now in ruins
    The potatoes did not grow when the blight came, just a few small ones grew and the next year they put them in a iddle and they were that small that they went through the hole
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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
    Mary Kate Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Honor Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmacanelly, Co. Mayo