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School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)

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Cormeen, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 293

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    The famine of 1946 & 1947 did'nt affect this district very much but in other places it did. There was a population of four million in Ireland before it, and after it there were only two. The cause of the famine was the potatoe failed, and anywhere they grew, and were dug, and put in pits they decayed. The people had to live on oaten bread, and cabbage, and other vegetables The goverment suplied seed to some of the people for the following year. During the famine a great fever broke out, and numbers of people died with it and hunger. When the blight first came the leaves of the potatoes got black, and the people did'nt know what it was. Some of them were
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggie Carolan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullyattin, Co. Meath
    Informant
    James Monaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullyattin, Co. Meath