School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Ónainn, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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- In the years eighteen forty six and seven the great famine was in Ireland. Before those years every little town was thickly populated but during the time of the famine hundreds of people died and any one who had money emigrated to America.
The first year the potatoes decayed in the pits and the following year they blackened in the ground. Every year since the blight comes on the potatoes but now there is a preventitive which is a mixture of lime stone and whashing soda.
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- Collector
- Evelyn Blackmore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Mhainchín, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Henry Blackmore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cill Mhainchín, Co. Chill Chainnigh
