School: Fahan (roll number 14479)
- Location:
- Fahan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín L. Nig Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 316
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- This district was thickly populated before the famine. It came in the years 1848 and 1849. The potatoes first had a disease called Mosaic, and then the blight came. The potatoes rotted in the ground. In those days they set their potatoes in ridges about four rows in each ridge. During the famine they only set the bud of the potatoes because they could not spare the potato. The government gave the people seed, the potatoes were called the "White Rocks", They came from Connaught.
There was an Indian meal boiler where the chapel is now. It was supplied by the Government. A man and his wife had charge of making of the porridge. They were called McLaughlin and were known as Bunty. Anybody who needed meal got it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jean Gillighan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr G Gillighan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Donegal
