School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 088
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- This district was not so badly affected during the famine as other places in Ireland, because the potatoes did not fail so badly as they did in other places and many of the people were fairly wealthy and they helped the poorer people a little. Some of the fairly wealthy people at that time were Byrnes and Dowling and Dunnes they all lived from three to four miles around Dunlavin. The potatoes rotted in the pits during the winter.
There were many houses in this district occupied at that time of the famine but nothing is to be seen of them now except stones some of these houses were on Mr William Dunne's land of Griffinstown about two miles from Dunlavin. The only food the people had during the famine was porridge which was made from Indian meal The people did not die in great numbers around here, great fevers(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathsallagh, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr P. O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Rathsallagh, Co. Wicklow
