School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- I do not know any story told about the great Famine of 1847. It affected my district very much my district was very thickly population in my district. In the year of 1847 the blight was seen for the first time and all the potatoes were bad in the pits and the farmers had to sell all the corn and wheat and barley to pay the rents, a great number of people died of hunger in the famine year. I do not kow of any other story.
Pupil = James Small Gurtnacranna Upperchurch Co. Tipperary.
Whom got: William Small Gurtnacranna Upperchurch Co. Tipperary. - Long ago the time of the famine in my district a lot of harm was done. People used to be got on the side of the road dead. They were dead from sickness and(continues on next page)