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School: Cluain an Iubhair (roll number 15213)

Location:
Cloonanure, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Háinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 476

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  1. Famine Times

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    The people of this district tell stories about the Great Famine. It effected this district very much.
    The district was nearly twice as thickly populated as it is now. The people still point sites of houses then occupied and now in ruins ruins or completely disappeared.
    The blight withered away the stalks so rapidly that the tubers had not time to develop. The potatoes sometimes decayed in the pits. There are no accounts of seed potatoes for the following year. They were sown in the ordinary way.
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    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
    Patrick Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clooneagh, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mr John Murray
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Clooneagh, Co. Sligo