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1. My Townland - Leophin (continued)

   

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   called Scotch Leophin, because long ago it is supposed that there were many Scotch people - planters likely, in that part of Leophin. Long ago, the people lived on their own produce. They grew their corn for meal, and ate oaten bread, and they had their own pork and beef, and butter and eggs. As the girls grew up, some of them went to America, and England, in later years, and sent home money to support the people at home.
   At the time of the famine in Ireland there were no potatoes at all in this part of the country. In the first year of the famine 1846, there were very little potatoes, and when they were dug and put into pits they all rotted away. It lasted for four years, and at the third and fourth years, the people set no potatoes at all, because at the second year they got less potatoes than they set. Around this parish, Indian meal was distributed in the houses among the people, but it was not distributed in any house in the townland of Leophin, but it was distributed in three townlands about a mile from the townland of Leophin.

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Location

   Liafin, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Collector

   Annie Mc Laughlin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Liafin, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Informant

   Denis Mc Laughlin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   46

   Address

   Liafin, Co. Dhún na nGall