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School: Crois Bhóthar

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Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0207

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    cured in it.
    In the year of the Famine people were buried in threes and fours without any coffins.
    If the people only sowed the Baslógs of the potatoes the year after the Famine they grew.
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  2. An Drochshaol

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    My grandmother who is living in Cloonkeely, 4 miles north-west of Tuam told me that she remembers the end of the famine period.
    That particular time when the potatoes were sown the weather came very bad and on that account they rotted in the ground. Then when the potatoes were rotten almost all the people starved and many of them died. Those who lived got some Indian meal and made porridge and in the morning they
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nóra Ní Núthail
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonkeenbeg, Co. Galway