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School: Leargán Buidhe (C.) (roll number 14289)

Location:
Larganboy East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean de Priondargás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 519

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    The famine affected this district very much. The district was very thickly populated before that time. When the potato crop failed the people died in hundreds, by the roadsides and in the fields. Some of the people were buried in boxes because there were not enough coffins. A stone of Indian meal was the payment the people got for a week's work. There is the ruin of an old house in Patrick Hopkins' garden and anther in Austin Bango's field. Those houses were once occupied by families who died out during the famine. There is another ruin in Willie Lyons's land - the people who occupied
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Hynes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Larganboy East, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Lyons
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Larganboy East, Co. Mayo