School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- In 1847 all the potatoes failed and the people were starving with hunger. That year the blight came on the potatoes first and people did not know how to save them from it.
The people were dying with hunger. They had nothing to eat only oatmeal and a little yellow meal.
A little boy died on a bank beside the road outside Gleann an Dúin N.S. I in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maisie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Beesie Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
