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School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)

Location:
Ballyea, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 075

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    The famine years were 1846, 1847, 1848. The way they used sow the potatoes long ago or around the years of the famine was first they would get a spade and a ball of soogans to make a line or to direct them straight, Then they would dig at both sides of the line and make a furrow. Next they would put one [?] on the centre, and one under the sod at both sides. There was a street of house on the road I come to school and they all died of Cholera in the famine year. There were three times more people in my district than there are now.
    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
    Willie Neylon
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Miss May O' Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    19
    Address
    Killerk East, Co. Clare