School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)Patrick Haughey. Those accounts were told to me by my uncle, Richard Clinton, Gartlanstown, Crookedwood, Mullingar.
- About fifty years ago there came a great plague. It was called scarlet fever.
This disease was a very dangerous one and six small children who were coming to this school died of it.
A famine came after that which was twice as bad as the fever.
Scores of people starved and many a poor man died in the gripe.
When the turnips and cabbage were in the fields the people were seen eating them like(continues on next page) - Collector
- Lawrence Clinton
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Richard Clinton
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gartlandstown, Co. Westmeath
