School: Drom Fada (roll number 16137)

Location:
Drumfad, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Coluínn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 234

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  1. 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 decayed
    In 1847 some people went as far as
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Florence Mc Collum
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carran Lower and Upper, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Bernard Price
    Gender
    Male