School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 01_047
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- (continued from previous page)leave their backs the whole day "but" says Patsy "it kept the people alive".
In that time all the P.P. of Balla got for his Xmas collection was £6. The population reduced in this district from 700 to 300. This reduction was caused by both death and emigration. There were some villages wiped out entirely and the stones in the vacated houses were used to make roads and to build bridges.
Patsy said when I asked him the cause of the failure in the potato crop . "The rot came on the potatoes by the will of God". They did not bud or grow for three years. 46-49.
The potatoes rotted in pits and barns.
Seed was then imported from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
