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School: An Currach Mór (roll number 7707)

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Curragh More, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 380

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    plentiness of crop the year before the famine that they could not use all the potato crop. The potatoes rotted by the ditches. The following year known as black forty seven all the potato crops failed. The people had nothing to eat. They had to kill and eat the young pigs as no one would buy them. Some of the rich people distributed meal among the poor.
    Hundreds of people died from hunger and those
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Delia Mulryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Timacat, Co. Galway
    Informant
    James Mulryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Timacat, Co. Galway