School: Edraguil (roll number 11225)
- Location:
- Edergole, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Nic Philip
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- On making enquiries from old people living around I learned that the famine caused much hardship in my own townland - Carson. The famine here as in other places began with an early blight on the potatoes. My grandfather saw the potato stalks blacken and wither on his land. He dug up the tubers inquisitive of the dread cause. They were rotted in the ground, rotted, blackened, useless. It was the same in his neighbours field and it was similar in the adjacent townlands and throughout the entire country.
Nowhere was there a field of green stalks, all disease, all decay. There was a very(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carsan, Co. Monaghan
