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School: Twomilehouse (roll number 2284)

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Twomilehouse, Co. Kildare
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Tomás Bineidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776C, Page 11_052

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  1. The Famine

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    In the year 1845 the year before the famine the potatoes were very plentiful. The price per stone was twopence. The farmers refused to sell them to the poorer classes at that price and rather than do so they dug holes in the fields and put the potatoes into them and covered tham with clay to let them rot. Some of the priests when they saw this remarked that they would not have any trouble digging them the next year.
    The next year the result was that the clack scab set in and the potatoes rotted in the ground
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Esther Leonard
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Johnstown or Dunshane, Co. Kildare