School: Lios Gúl, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 4230)
- Location:
- Lisgoold North, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cathasaigh
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“The chief food of the people when the potatoes failed was Indian meal...”
(continued from previous page)them three months to sail to America. Some of them got fever too going over and they were buried at sea. The most of them who went that time got on very well though they had very little education they were good honest workers. The people who go the fever and died in this country were hardly buried properly atall. As regards the potato crop when they failed for two or more years serveral people gave up growing them. As they thought it useless when they were such a failure. But the people who did plant them did much better as they grew well again and they sold them at a very good price. It was then the potatoes called Champions came out and they grew very well in this country.
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“All potatoes were sown in ridges long ago...”
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