School: Gleann Dubh (roll number 16032)
- Location:
- Carnagh West, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0266, Page 298
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- The old people tell stories to the youths of to-day about the famine of 1846 and 1847 as we can hear them at it as we sit around the fire during the cold Winter months. The famine affected the district very much as it lessened the population very much, and the people as they had no food died of starvation. Those people used to eat grass and also they used to steal turnips out of their neighbour's field as they had nothing else to eat all their food was gone. before the famine came the district was(continues on next page)
