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School: Eanach Dubh (C.) (roll number 13657)

Location:
Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Mrs Mary Shanley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 224

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  1. Composition on Clothes Made Locally (continued)

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  2. Composition on Famine Times

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    The famine of 1846 caused much distress in this district, and in every place throughout the country. It was a terrible famine as many a person died of starvation. Everything went to desolation and the country was in a terrible state. The potatoe crop was a failure that year. Any potatoes that were, they were very very small. The people could not set them the next year they hat to broadcast them on the ground. The district was very thickly populated.
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