School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 286
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- Famine Times
There are many stories told about the famine in Ireland. It effected the people very much. Many a thousand dies of starvation. This country was thickly populated. The weather was very bad and the potatoes rotted in the ground. The weather got bad in February and continued until June. The people were so badly in need of food, as they went out into the field where the slits of potatoes were, with shovels and shades, and dug them up and eat them. They were dying in hundreds by the road-side and in the fields. Nearly all the people would have died only England sent money for food.
Peggy Charles 13 years
Eskerlevally
Claremorris
This story was told to me by my father Mr. Charles
- Collector
- Peggie Charles
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Eskerlevally, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Charles
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eskerlevally, Co. Mayo
