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School: An Cheapach, Askeaton

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Cappagh, Co. Limerick
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Henry Mulligan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0502, Page 138

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    populated, before the famine, and also because potatoes, were the chief food then.
    It was a great disappoint-ment to the farmers, after working hard sowing the seed when, to find when they went to pick the fruits of their labour, that the potatoes had rotted in the ground. Owing to the shortage of food, people developed terrible diseases, such as fever and pneumonia.
    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
    Roger Kennedy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinvirick, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    David Kennedy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinvirick, Co. Limerick