School: Feevagh (roll number 9517)
- Location:
- Feevagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Bhaldraithe
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- This district was very thickly populated before the famine of 1647. There were a lot of houses on the roadside and all through the fields of which no trace exists now.
In some places the walls of little garden are still to be seen; but the walls of the houses themselves have disappeared.
When the potato stalks withered in 1847 the people thought it was the cholera that had fallen on them. The potatoes(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Mulligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowntarriff, Co. Roscommon