School: Clonback, Aughnacliffe (roll number 15038)
- Location:
- Cloonback, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Seán Mac Ionnraic
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- In 1846 there was a famine in Ireland. It lasted three years. The crops were a failure and the people died of starvation. As they had no food they eat grass and weeds. In some places only one or two of the family survived. When they died they were buried coffinless and some of them were buried under the clay floors.
- Informant
- Peter Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Aghamore Upper, Co. Longford