School: Baile an Bhile (C.) (roll number 15488)
- Location:
- Baile an Bhile, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Giollachlaoin
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- (continued from previous page)Thousands of people died of starvation all over the country - raw turnips, weeds and sea weeds were eaten. When the summer of eighteen forty six came all Ireland waited with anxious hearts to see would the new crop save them, but the blight appeared again and the crop was ruined.
- Collector
- Margaret T. Lyons
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs. Lyons
- Gender
- Female