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School: Rosmead (roll number 7212)

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Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
E. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 102

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    the people came to dig the potatoes they got them all rotten in the ground.
    The seed was not kept for the next year because the people wanted the potatoes to eat. Two ships of Indian meal were sent over to Ireland and when they were coming the English drowned the two ships. The people had no food but some potatoes and Indian porridge. The people died in great numbers and the people who went to bury them went to the houses and got straw and put it around them and put them in a hole. They died with great kind of fever.
    Some of the families were put out of their houses because they were not able to pay the rent. Some of these evicted were Judy Lynch, and Connell's and Lacy's in Mulliganstown.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Gaffney
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Dennis Larkin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Clonarney, Co. Westmeath