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School: Cill Bheagnait (roll number 1327)

Location:
Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Briain
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    The Famine
    The Famine was so severe and the people were so hungry that they were dying on the sides of the road from hunger. They used to boil the nettles and eat them. And where they used to see a man ploughing in a field, they would go in and scrape the clay, to see if they could get a white root called briosgain to eat it. There is a story told of a poor wandering woman, that called into a house of Mr. O Neill in the district of Lenemarla, in the morning
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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
    Úna Ní Chuinn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Skehaghard, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Seán Ó Chuinn
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Skehaghard, Co. Galway