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School: Glendooen (roll number 11751)

Location:
Doon Glebe, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Edith V. Jennings
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 311

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    The people were digging potatoes from morning to night and they would hardly have one bucketful. The poor who went from house to house begging they had their own spun and they asked to get scrapping the pots to keep them alive and it effected the district very much. There were great lot of people in the district at that time. The people in our own district can point out places that were in ruins. Lots of them is still there yet and others are swept away. The potatoes decayed in the ground. The people were found dead along the roads.
    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
    Margaret Mc Glynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newmills, Co. Donegal