School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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- I was told by Joseph Carey that a lot of people got mad and died with the hunger during the Famine times. The old people used to get black potatoes and bruise them between two flags to drain. They mixed them with some sort of meal and baked it on a griddle. The people cut a bit of that and ate it with a cup of water as there was no tea at that time. A lot of people got a disease called the Black Fever and or left the Country. Some of the people had too(continues on next page)