School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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- (continued from previous page)of those bodies were unearthed in the stillness of the night and interred in Assylin Cemetery.
- The famine times were during the years 1846 and '47. "Black '46 and '47" they were called. The affected my district very much, and many people died. Before that time, there was a good population in the district, but after it, between some of the people dying and more of them emigrating to America, there were hardly any people left in it.
The start of the famine was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Dell Kivlehan
- Address
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Pat Carney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Granny, Co. Roscommon