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School: Aghalustia (roll number 12484)

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Aghalustia, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 029

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    them like oats on the ground.
    During those years the people were in a bad way for food and they died one by one of hunger. After the famine a great plague came which killed even more of the people than the famine did. The people were so weakened with hunger that when they got food it killed them instead of nourishing them.
    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
    Mary O' Gara
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Cartron More, Co. Roscommon