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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 165

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    The people died of hunger and want of food. Some people lived on turnips and sea weed, and green grass, while others lived on oats and barley. Before the famine there was twenty one houses. From Lenamore cross to Moher on the side of the road and a year after there were only three left. The three that were left were very poor. The people had nothing to eat in Ireland that time but the potatoes. The year the blight came they had nothing to eat and they died with the hunger. The dogs and everything they had died with the hunger. They sold everything they had to other countries and they had nothing themselves.
    The old barrack in Ballylongford was a workhouse during the famine years. When the potatoes got black the people used to eat the turnips and grass and any root they used to meet. The English people sent ships to Ireland to carry the people to America. The people got out of their head with hunger and they used
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Catherine Dunne
    Gender
    Female
    Collector
    Daniel Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Collector
    Mary Finucane
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Denis Dunne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tairbeart, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Michael Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Address
    An Léana Mór, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Michael O' Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    An Léana Mór, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Thomas Hanrahan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    An Léana Mór, Co. Chiarraí