School: Finea (roll number 10599)
- Location:
- Finnea, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Kathleen Hackett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 099
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- The Great Famine which occurred during the years 1845 to 1847 caused by the failure potato crop when the people died like flies.
The wet summer of 1845 produced a disease which rotted immence quantities of the potatoes on which the Irish at that time depended upon for food. This caused the famine and a terrible fever followed which wiped out any who survived the famine. Large quantities of Indian corn and other rough food were shipped into the country by the British.
