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School: Mín a Ghabhann (Meenagowan) (roll number 16823)

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Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Glacáin
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    “There was a big famine here in the year 1847. ...”

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    There was a big famine here in the year 1847 It started on the fourth of june. The blight came on the potatoes and they growing It was too late to plant any more that year.
    The potatoes were the most thing that the people had to depend to keep them living.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó Rusail
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Raithnigh, Co. Donegal