School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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all the people were driven out of the country.When they sowed potatoes they blackened and did not grow.Then they were not able to pay their rents and they we were thrown out on the roads and those who were not willing to go they (were)houses houses were burned over them.There were people buried in Acres mountains that died with the famine.
- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Acres, Co. Clare
