School: Drom Fada (roll number 16137)
- Location:
- Drumfad, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Coluínn
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- There was a great famine in the years 1846 and 1847. The people had no potatoes and they had only a few turnips. Some people had early potatoes and they were not destroyed with the famine. The people saved the seed for the next year but it all decayed in the ground. James Jackson ploughed all the Winter so as to get the ground rich. In the Spring he set his turnips. After all his work in the Winter he only got two turnips a day.The beginning of the famine was caused by a great frost one night in June. It withered all the tops off the potatoes and then the roots decayedIn 1847 some people went as far as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence Mc Collum
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carran Lower and Upper, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Bernard Price
- Gender
- Male