School: Derryhanee (roll number 16228)
- Location:
- Derryhanee, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs B. Wilkinson
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- (continued from previous page)district under hedges or in their own homes. The next year the people had to cut the eyes out of the potatoes for seed. After a long time the Government came to their relief.
- The great famine was from 1846-1847. Tarmonbarry was thickly populated then but as a result of the famine the population reduced very much. When the potato failed the people ate turnips boiled nettles and weeds. In some parts of the district the potatoes rotted in the ground and in other parts they went bad in pits. People were got dead in drains, rivers and behind ditches. When a great number of people had died the Government came to the relief and gave the survivors great assistance.
- Collector
- Una Neary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Termonbarry, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- James Neary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Termonbarry, Co. Roscommon
