School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 090
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- (continued from previous page)that were inhabited the time of the famine. The year before the famine the people had so good a crop of potatoes and each potato was so big that they threw them in heaps at the back of the ditches to clear the fields for ploughing the next year. The potatoes were so small the next year that the old people say you could riddle them. The blight came both in the ground and in the pits. The people got relief but it was only three-pence and four-pence per day. The sickness was very great around here. It was called the Cholera. The people died in great numbers.(Peadar Ó Muireadaigh from James Reilly)
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