School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- Some of the people can just remember of the famine times in eighteen forty seven. It effected the district very much. There were numbers of people buried during the famine.
The blight fell and the potatoes failed. Every mans crop failed. The food the people had instead of potatoes was "starabout".
The government gave a relief to the country such as to reduse the rents.
People died with hunger and great sickness followed.- Collector
- Nancy Hopkins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lawaus, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs D. Hopkins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lawaus, Co. Mayo