School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs E.J. Roberts
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- (continued from previous page)At that time the blight fell one night.
The most of the potatoes decayed in the ground and what did not decay in the ground decayed in the pits.
The next year people got it very hard to get seed potatoes and very few people got any at all.
A great many people took a disease called "Cholera" and other diseases from the queer things they ate to stay their hunger.- Informant
- Mr W. Ormiston
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- Parent
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- Male
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- Mullagh, Co. Cavan