School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)
- Location:
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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- (continued from previous page)No more I'll run o'er Lacken Hills
It's vales and rivers winding
Or steal from school to Carrow mill
To see it's big wheel grinding.
No more shall yellow Autumn's light
Round those borders find me,
But still where 'ere by day or night
My heart is there behind me. - The "Great Famine" occurred in the years '46 to '47. It was caused by the failure of the potato crop. The people were dependent on the potato crop for their only food so the potato failure caused starvation among the people. This district was very thickly populated. Many people died of hunger and diseases brought from hunger while others(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Brigid Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Peter Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon