School: Lower Warren (roll number 7793)

Location:
Warren Lower, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Liam Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 428

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 428

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  1. The year before the Famine was the best year ever was in Ireland for potatoes. They were so plentiful that they were thrown in ditches and at the end of every field and left to rot. They grew so big that the people called them "AMADAWNS" and made little of them everyway. The next year they grew well but rotted in the ground and in pits. This is what Father Fagen C.C. told me. He also said that God was angry with the people for making little of the good crop he gave to them the year before.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brian Dempsey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Nannie Doolan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Westmeath