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School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)

Location:
Cross, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Mac Niocail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0102, Page 387

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    in my district. In the townsland of Lochafinna there were the ruins of sixty houses deserted since the time of the famine.
    When the blight came the potatoes got black in the pits during the first year of the famine and during the second year they got black in the ground and the people were left with very little food. People were found dead in their homes and on the roadside. The government supplied the people with some maize meal as relief. A great fever followed the hunger and people died in the workhouse in large numbers. One day they made a big hole in Ballimoke work house grounds as well as fifty corpses there together.
    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
    Michael Cummins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gortacurra, Co. Mayo