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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)

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Durlas, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
An tSr. Aodán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 301

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    noticed a blight coming on the potatoes. All of them were destroyed. The people were dying of starvation. The most of them died at the sides of the roads and in the fields. Thousands of them went to the poor houses but there was not room for them all. Sometimes lorries of corpses going off to be buried were seen.
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    In the year 1846 there was a great famine in Ireland. It affected the district very much and many of the people died. It lasted
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    Topics
    1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
        1. an gorta mór (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peg Toohey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bóthar na Féinne, Co. Thiobraid Árann
    Informant
    Mr Toohey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bóthar na Féinne, Co. Thiobraid Árann