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School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)

Location:
Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M. Ó Héimhthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 200

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    There was a great famine in Ireland in the years 1846 and 1847. This district was thickly populated before the famine. The people were dying so quickly they had to bury some of them in the fields.
    Then small holdings were made into big farms and handed over to wealthy people.
    The potato crop decayed in the ridges before they ripened for digging. People knew nothing about the blight before that time.
    No relief from the Government reached the district. great sickness followed the famine.
    Eibhlín Ní Dhubhda
    rang a sé
    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
    Eibhlín Ní Dhubhda
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Dowd
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Cornapallis, Co. Roscommon