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School: Faithche (Buachaillí)

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Fahy More, Co. Mayo
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Mícheál Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 401

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    In the Autumn of that year the people found that some of the potatoes had rotted in the ground, and some more rotted in the pits. With all that rotted in the pits the people had scarcely enough to supply seed for the following year.
    The following year the crop was rendered unfit for food, by the blight. The people had to eat turnips, and roots of herbs, and plants. When all these were exhausted the people went around at the back of the landlords' houses eating turnip-skins, and pieces of stirabout.
    Often the people were found dead on the roadsides dying, and dead of hunger. Some of their lips were green from eating grass.
    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
    Patrick Joseph Kennedy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Brockagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    James Cusack
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Brockagh, Co. Mayo