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School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)

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Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Ó Maonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 211

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  1. The Famine (continued)

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    There was a family called Lynams who lived in Mountrath the time of the famine. Some of them went to America and more of them died with the hunger.
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  2. The Famine

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    When the famine was in this country I heard it said that in olden times a lot of people died in Rahugh. People say that the year before the famine there was a great crop of potatoes and that the people did not know what to with them. A lot of people brought them down to the bog to make a car-way. Others put them in gripes and when the famine came, there were no potatoes in this country. Then the people had nothing to eat only wheat, meal, and mikk. Some of them eat grass but it killed them.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Lee
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Pallas, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Patrick Lee
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Pallas, Co. Westmeath