School: Droichead na Daoile (roll number 14736)
- Location:
- Lackalustraun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0151, Page 374
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- The people of this district were much surprised when they got up on the 7th August 1845 to see their fine green crops of stalks as black as ink. This was blight but they did not know what it was. When the Autumn came they had very small potatoes not fit for human food. They were so soft and wet that they rotted in the pits. All that was left were sown in 1846 but the same thing happened and great was their despair.The people of Derra had big herds of cattle so the famine did not affect them much.(continues on next page)
