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School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)

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Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs Hope
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 242

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    There are fourteen houses now in ruins which were then in occupation the families having died during the Famine. This district was very thickly populated then. It is said that for every person in the district now there were at least three before the Famine.
    The year before the Famine the potatoes were so plentiful that the people had to throw them into the ditches. The following year the stalks withered away and the potatoes were blighted and could not be eaten. The few that escaped the blight were so small that the people had to eat them skin and all. If they peeled them they would have nothing. In this district the potatoes decayed in the ground. The seed for the following year are said
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    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
    Informant
    Joseph Ollard
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Occupation
    Labourer
    Address
    Coolnahay, Co. Westmeath