School: Scoil an Chlochair, Cappamore
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Fionntán
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- A great famine spread over this country in the year 1847. At that time, people had to eat potatoes and drink sour milk. Sometimes, they had black tea. There was an old woman named Johanna McGrath living in this district about three years ago, and she was always speaking about the famine of 1847. She was very old. She was a hundred and three when she died. She could tell lots of(continues on next page)