School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- The famine effected the country very much. The potato crop failed. The food the people used instead of potatoes was rats, old dogs, cats horses and a lot of other things.
Some people got government relief. A lot of the people died with hunger.- Collector
- Kitty Godfrey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownlough, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Paddy Godfrey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownlough, Co. Mayo