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School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)

Location:
Leggagh, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Francis Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 524

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  1. Famine Times (continued)

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    the bed that they were only dying of hunger and there were also fifteen buried in a green field during the next week.
    Some people gave up their farms for a bag of meal.
    Meal was distributed amongst the poor and a stone had to do a family a week.
    The district was thickly populated in famine years.
    The potatoes decayed in the ground.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ellen Briody
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Leggagh, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Grath
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leggagh, Co. Longford