School: Cill Dá Lua (B.)
- Location:
- Killaloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Loingsigh
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- In those days almost the whole population of Ireland subsisted on the potato. But in 185 and 1846 the potato crop failed and there was a great famine the worst the country had ever experienced. In 1846 and 1847 the people died by hundreds of thousands of starvation and fever but the English people made great efforts to save the starving people and money in big amounts came pouring in. The saddest thing of all was that Ireland produced sufficent corn to feed the whole of the country but day after day it was shipped to other countries while people starved at home. One forth of the people of Ireland died(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Matthew Gibbons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Informant
- Martin Gibbons
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Killaloe, Co. Clare
