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School: Ballinacarrig, Rathdrum

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Ballinacarrig Lower, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Bean Uí Dhubhghoill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 185

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    The famine was caused in Ireland by the failure of the potato crop. The people used live on potatoes & then from hunger in 1846 & 1947 they died in Great numbers in the fields on roads & in houses & a great number were left without being buried & this caused a plague which took several thousands.
    Others went away in ship loads to other lands.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
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