School: Dysert (roll number 8640)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Nic Eochagáin
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- About ninty years ago there was a famine.
Years before the famine the potatoes grew very plentifully. They grew so well that no manure was needed at all for them.They were so plentiful that there was no value for them. The potatoes were thrown in the big dykes in the fields and leave them to rot.When the farmer would be ploughing he used to drive the horses through the potato holesIn "black '47" a blight came on the potatoes the first time that the blight ever came on the potatoes.The rotted when(continues on next page)- Informant
- Thomas Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 56
- Address
- Dysart, Co. Westmeath