School: Killasnett (roll number 9533)
- Location:
- Curraghfore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eoghan Mac Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0192, Page 110
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“The Famine came in the year of 1845. It started because the blight came on the potatoes and the hens ceased to lay.”
(continued from previous page)worn down to skeletons the national language and tradition declined after the famine. A Story was told by a man names John Mitchell going past a poor mans door heard the children cry; No breakfast/ No dinner/ No supper No prospect of better to-morrow.
- Collector
- Rose Galliagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lurganboy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Pollboy, Co. Leitrim