School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- The famine started in Ireland about the year eighteen forty six. All the potatoes failed and as the people lived mostly on potatoes in those times a lot of the people were dying with starvation.
A lot of people (were) went away to America and other places and since that time emigration never ceased from Ireland, so that America is now almost an Irish colony.
Some people were employed working in a quarry, and all you would get for the day was one pound of Indian meal.- Collector
- Thomas O' Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Guire
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo