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School: Lugnaskeehan (roll number 6562)

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Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Eibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 473

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    in the one grave. Through time they were not even able to go to the graves with the bodies they buried them in the fields where they got them and that is the reason that people often find skeletons in bogs and in old drains. Some of the dead bodies were often unburied because people were not able.
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    The famine which was in 1846 and 1847 was a terrible time for the people in this district. As a result of the blight the potato crop failed. The potatoes did not grow with the exception of a few places where they grew very small. The people that had them kept them in barrels and set them the following year.
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kevin Curnan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lugnaskeehan, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    James Clarke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Killarga, Co. Leitrim