School: Mín a Ghabhann (Meenagowan) (roll number 16823)
- Location:
- Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Glacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1054B, Page 01_007
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- There was a terrible famine in the year 1847. The old people speak of it sometimes. The blight killed all potatoes and they growing. There were more houses in the district that time than there is now. There is a man buried down at bom cross roads. He died the time of the famine. There was not much food at that time. A few died(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Ní Bhreslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Johnstown or Dunshane, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mary Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raithnigh, Co. Donegal
