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School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)

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Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 384

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    They people looked in the ground for the small potatoes that were left after other years. Everyone put down the potatoes for the next year for seed potatoes. At that time people would eat the dandyline. They used to eat it now with salt.
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  2. Famine Times

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    Long ago the famine affected this district very much.The blight came on the stalks and ruined all the potatoes. The potatoes rotted in the pits. The following year they dug the small potatoes out of the soil and set them in ridges. Some of the people said they would not grow, and those who dug them had fine potatoes the next year. The only food the people had was, leaves of cabbage, and dandy
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bheronica Ní Cheallacháin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockbrack, Co. Mayo