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School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)

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Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
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S. Ó Deagha
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    There were a lot more people living around the time of the famine than now. The potatoes rotted in the pits.
    The people used to take the eyes out of the potatoes and scatter them like cats.
    The people who had nothing else used eat neltles and some had corn and they used eat it.
    They got very little help from foreign countries, and a terrible lot of people died
    There was no scarcity of food since the year of 1846-47.
    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
    Francis Brady
    Address
    Glennamaddy, Co. Galway