School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)

Location:
Leggagh, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Francis Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 508

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  1. James McNamee was born in the year of the famine.
    He is still living but his memory is not so good. All the crops failed. The people had neither eating potatoes nor seed potatoes. Oaten meal was two pounds a hundred. The people had to boil cabbage and make oaten gruel with the cabbage and that was all that they had to eat in the famine years.
    My Great - grandfather lived in the year of the famine. His potato crop was so bad that he riddled the potatoes the ones that went through the riddle he kept them for seed and the ones that did not go through it he kept them for eating. The next year he planted the seed potatoes in a small garden beside the house. He had to sow them
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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
    Peter Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Leggagh, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Tom Sheridan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Leggagh, Co. Longford