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School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)

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Ennis, Co. Clare
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Proinnsias Ó Fionnmhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 088

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    and cattle in order to be able their rents. When the potatoes failed the poor people had nothing on which to live. When the people had nothing to eat there came a famine which could have been avoided only for they had to export their corn.
    The result was terrible famine people died on the roadsides in hundreds with hunger. They even ate the nettles that grow.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonroad More, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Joseph Nightingale
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lysaght's Lane, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Joseph Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonroad More, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Patrick Tierney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ennis, Co. Clare