School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 09_038
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- There was a famine in the year eighteen forty seven. Blight came on the potatoes and there was hardly a potato in the country.
At that time the people lived on potatoes and as the potatoes did not grow they were all starving.
The people who lived during the famine had to eat grass and hay.
Every day the people were dying in hundreds along the roads and when the famine was over about half the people had died.
- Collector
- Michael Lavelle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cordarragh North, Co. Mayo
