School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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- (continued from previous page)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(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Joseph Ollard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Coolnahay, Co. Westmeath