School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)
- Location:
- Menlough, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 033
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- There was a great Famine in Ireland long ago. Seven years before the Famine started, the potatoes grew so plentifully that the people did not think worth their while to turn them in the pits.
For seven years more the potatoes hardly grew at all, that was the cause of the Famine, as the people were living on the potatoes.
The people were dying with hunger by the hundreds. Fever broke out among the people. The workhouses and the vacant houses of the country were packed with the sick. Those were called sick houses and the people were dying wholesale in those houses and they used to be buried without a coffin, they used to be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Devany
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Ballaghnagrosheen, Co. Galway
