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School: Naomh Seosamh (Buachaillí)

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Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
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S. Ó Deagha
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    There were a lot more people living in the time of the famine than there are now.
    The blight came on the potatoes and the people were dying of hunger and fever on the road.
    It is not known what kind of seed the people had to plant or whether they scattered it broadcast.
    The people started to go to America then because they could not live in Ireland.
    Nobody knows what they were eating when the potatoes failed.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Garvey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clooncon West, Co. Galway