School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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- (continued from previous page)The government sent a certain amount of food to each town, and it was the parish priest of Boyle, Father McDonagh, that distributed the food to the Boyle people, at the workhouse gates once a week.
- In the Autumn of 1846 a blight fell upon the potato crop in Ireland, and, in poor parts of the country the havoc and destruction which it caused is indescribable. The following are a few stories which I heard in my district about the awful state of the people.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dell Kivlehan
- Address
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Martain
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Roscommon