School: Moyne (B.) (roll number 13989)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0766, Page 390
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- (continued from previous page)to fall back on The potatoes were stricken down with blight. The old people around here tell us that women in their draugad petticoats were to be seen in the fields around Moyne rooting and picking for hours to get one little gallon full. Very well the day came when they could not even get one gallon full and old Paddy McGuinness says that on an average six coffins went to the graveyard every day - death from hunger. Fever set in. Old Rose Corcoran of Moyne used to tell that three and four were often lying sick with fever in one house, without one to give them a drink of water.
Others around here started to tramp to the North to beg food for themselves and their children, but were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Pat Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
