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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 349

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    many people at the present time and all this misery was caused by a failure of the potato crop. Ever since that time people take great care of the potato crop. I heard an old person say only for the corn that came in to the country the population would be very small now.
    He often told how fathers would stay out until bed time to avoid the crys of their children. There came in a ship with a load of Indian corn to the starving people. Its wreck is at Enniscrone still where the storm drove it in there on the beach.
    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
    Charles Gibson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Leaffony, Co. Sligo