School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 086
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes. Very few stories are told of the famine by old people in this district, which shows the famine was not severe in this neighbourhood;
- From information I have received from Mr James Deegan Uppertown. He told me that the people of Dunlavin did not die of starvation during the years of the famine because Dunlavin was a very wealthy district then, There were three or four wealthy families living near it, some of their surnames were Dixon, Molyneux, Tynte, and a few others and those families supported the poorer people during the famine, but some Dunlavin people died of fright. Many people of Donard Valleymount, and other poor districts(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bartholomew Grace
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Uppertown, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- James Deegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Uppertown, Co. Wicklow
