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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 458

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  1. The Famine (continued)

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    a certain man selected to spray the the potatoes. Any-one that sprayed the potatoes that time they had to put the spraying stuff in a bucket and make a heather bisom and shake it round on the stalks. The spraying stuff at that time was very h strong and it very often burned the stalks. In the famine years the town land was thickly crawed with houses. The most of the houses were mud walled. The people were very poor and were unable to pay rent for their houses and the land lords put them out and levelled the houses to the ground.
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  2. Famine

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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Smith
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Maggie Smith
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    46
    Address
    Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan