School: Cill Fhearga (roll number 15128)
- Location:
- Killarga, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 282
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- (continued from previous page)Whatever potatoes were in the ground rotted, owing to their not coming to maturity.
A plage of fever spread throughout the country on account of the dead bodies that were not buried properly during the Famine years. Most of the young people who lived after the Famine emigrated to America. The potatoes were sown different to now. They were sown broadcast after the Famine as they got seed potatoes from foreign countries.
There was Indian meal given out in Manorhamilton at two shillings and six pence per stone. Nobody was able to buy more than three and a half pounds. Most of the people made porridge and Indian meal bread from it.
- Collector
- Anna R. Mc Morrow
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullaghmore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Hugh Mc Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Mullaghmore, Co. Leitrim
