School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
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- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 304
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - My grandfather Joseph Daly who died a couple of years ago at the age of 86 often told me stories about the famine that he heard from his parents. He told me that the famine was very bad but that it was not very bad here because the English government had to give out meal. They gave out Indian Meal but before they gave it out they used to throw water on it the way the people could not use it for a long time.
Castletown Geoghegan. Mrs Carey Condranstown went down one day to a well near her house for a can of water and when she came home, she found two men in the yard eating out of a pig's pot. The potatoes that were put in pits the year of the famine all rotted and those that were left in the ground were not too bad.
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