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School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)

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Monksland, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 285

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    The great famine occured in Ireland in 1846-47. The peoples crops of potatoes decayed in the ground and also the grain crops, so that it left the district completely in want of food.
    The farmers had to sack their workers and go to foreign countries and leave their homes a complete ruin. Some of them did well in America and took out their families.
    There were some well to do farmers in the district who bought up some of the poor peoples land very cheap, some give money and others gave eatables. The eatables they had were Indian-meal.

    Kathleen Hanratty
    Willville
    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
    Kathleen Hanratty
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Willville, Co. Louth