School: Castlecuffe, Mountmellick (roll number 8749)
- Location:
- Castlecuffe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: J. Devereux
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0824, Page 135
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- The famine came in the years forty seven and forty eight. There were eight million and a half of people in Ireland.One Million of them died of hunger and starvation.As many as could get away to America went and the population was reduced to four and a half million. During the famine the potatoes became black in the drills. The blight came and ever since the blight is on the potatoes. All the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Conroy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballykenneen Upper, Co. Laois
