School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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- (continued from previous page)be dying on the sides of the roads, and in the houses in large numbers.
On account of their having no food to support themselves. Like the time of the Famine nearly all the people in the country that were living at that time lived on potatoes and butter milk.
The old people in this district say that they did not see such dry weather in the month of May for the past ten years. The last fair that was in Killala was very bad on account of the dryness. People did not want any cattle because they had no grass to feed them. The grass would not grow without rain.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
