School: Killomoran (roll number 15147)
- Location:
- Killomoran, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Delia Mc Kague
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0269
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- (continued from previous page)every day to the town to be sold ) and potatoes.The old Deane superintended the work in the garden and if there was any man who tried to be idling he got a blow of his big stick when he least expected it and was ordered off.The population was about six to one at the present day.Several ruins of dwellings are pointed out where the people were carried away by the Cholera.The first year the potatoes rotted in the pits. The next year they blackened in the gound and in the pits and the last year they decayed in the ground and in the pits.The government gave out seed potatoes which were not always given to diserving people. Some few persons here and(continues on next page)
