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School: Cloncovid

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Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
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S. Savage
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 169

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    It is about ninty years since the famine. Before this the farmers lived on their produce but after that year they did not depend so much on their crops.
    My district was very thickly populated at that time but now there are only about one hundred people living in it. The people died along the roads with hunger. Some of them had green grass in their mouths.
    Along with the famine came a terrible disease called "Cholera" and thousands died in the workhouse.
    Some of the people
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Sheridan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carnagh Upper, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Edward Hore
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carnagh Upper, Co. Cavan