School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)
- Location:
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hugh Mc Kee Fleck
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- When the famine started the men and women were looking for cabbage and turnips to feed their children. The famine started in July 1846, and in one night the potatoes were dead. There were about one hundred people in this district died of hunger.
- Collector
- John Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal