School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- There was a famine in Ireland about 96 years ago. The people were very poor and the crops failed, because blight fell on them. There was a great population of people and they had not much food except the potatoes and yellow meal. All the potatoes failed only a stalk here and there which they had to keep for the next year. About half of the people got hunger and diseases and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Rush Hill, Co. Mayo