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School: Stonetown, Louth (roll number 16431)

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Stonetown Lower, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Ó Dubháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 248

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    course the well to do farmers had plenty of oats to grind into meal and they were sowing plenty of wheat too. There were a lot of deaths among the poorer class owning to the bad food. The governments started free emigration after the famine and a lot of the poor and small farmers emigrated to America and to the Colonies and their houses were demolished and the land made into ranches.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tommy Kirk
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballakelly, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Owen Dooley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Drumcamill, Co. Louth