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School: Baile an Leasa (roll number 15561)

Location:
Ballinlass, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Treasa Bean Uí Mhathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 0216

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    When the potato crop failed the Irish were in awful distress. The people had to eat nettles and weeds but some people were fortunate enough to have oatmeal.
    My grandmother lived through the famine as she is 95 years old now and she says that people in crowds followed the plough and fought for the seeds turned up by the plough.
    People dived on the
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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 Egan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Carrowkeelanahglass, Co. Galway