School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)
- Location:
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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- (continued from previous page)them in it. It is said that the year before the famine there was'nt a drain in the country but it was full of potatoes
- The great famine was in the year 1849 - 47. It was called the black forty-six, and black forty-seven. The people had no food to eat, and all they could eat was oaten meal porridge. The people were very weak in that time and hundreds of them died with the hunger.
There was(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath