School: Imleach Neachtain (roll number 11983)
- Location:
- Emlaghnaghtan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Casaide
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- My mother told me of the Great Famine of 1846 to 1847 which had a disastrous effect on our district and owing to the number that emigrated and the number of deaths the population was dwindled to half. The blight came and caused a failure in the potato-crop. Where there were beautiful potatoes the year before they were now only Póithríní. The worst feature was that there were no seed-potatoes for the following year. The people who were depending on the potato-crop for food were starved with the hunger. My grandfather, who is living in Corrigans about three and a half miles north of Ballymote town, told me that his father told him that after the famine he gathered all the Póithríní and put them into a pit. The following year he stuck the Póithríní and ge never had a better crop of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Gettrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathdoony Beg, Co. Sligo
