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School: Lisdoonan

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Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 142

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    In years gone by there was many a failure in the crops but the most terrible one was in 1847 and 1848. A terrible famine fell on the potato crop in 1847 and the people did not know what it was. It caused a famine and with the starvation of the people a fever also came and this caused more harm. Some of the old people can just remember it and they say it was the greatest trial they ever minded.
    A little spot came on the leaf of the potato stalk and spread over the whole stalk and caused the potatoes in the ground to rot. This was an awful loss to the people as potatoes were all the food they had ten. At that time there was a great population and there were only half of them left after those terrible years of starvation. The old people say that it was a wonder that so many survived at all. The people perished by hundreds, by thousands, by tens of thousands, by hundreds
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ena Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Owen Mc Cabe
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan