School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 087
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- (continued from previous page)died of starvation and sickness during the famine years. Bodies were found out through the fields and roads of those poor districts where they used to be out trying to seek food and died of weakness.
The potatoes failed in the ground and then the people went along digging them out and cutting the seeds or eyes out of them with knives and they sowed them and they produced a crop the next year. The people of Dunlavin used Indian meal instead of potatoes it was sent over from England by the British Government and the wealthy people who lived there paid for it with there own money, Dunlavin was fairly thickly populated in the year of the famine. It is very seldom that old people of this district talk about the great famine or tell stories concerning it
- Collector
- Bartholomew Grace
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Uppertown, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- James Deegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Uppertown, Co. Wicklow
