School: An Currach Mór (roll number 7707)

Location:
Curragh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 288

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  1. In the year 1847 a great famine broke out through Ireland.
    The potatoes failed that year. The blight came and burned them. Thousands of people died of starvation that year also. There was so many people dying that they had not enough of coffins for them all. Many people
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    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Naughton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Milltown, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Wade
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Milltown, Co. Galway