School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
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- Informant
- James Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annies, Co. Monaghan
- Famine Times
Mia Duffy has some stories about the famine. It effected this district very much. The blight came on the potatoes. They decayed first in the pits and afterwards in the ridges. There is a story told about a man who had two acres of land in potatoes. When he was digging them he got about the full of a skillet on the whole field.
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