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School: An Cheathrú Gharbh

Location:
Carrowgarve, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Fiachra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0147, Page 599

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    went to the bottom of the sea.
    Some of the people reached America and settled down for life there and earned their living there also. Nowadays the people are cuter [?]; they put a stuff on the stalks to prevent the blight.
    They spray the crop with a substance made up of blue-stone and washing-soda and lime. A little attack of the blight is to be seen up to the present day.
    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 Gillespie
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Brackwanshagh, Co. Mayo