School: Castletown
- Location:
- Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)assisted the poor people dying on the side of the road with cholera + brought them into his house. He often said that the year before the famine the people had such a surplus of potatoes that no matter where you would go you would find the ditches full of potatoes.
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- Collector
- A. Donegan
- Gender
- Unknown
- Informant
- Mrs W. Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na Mí
- Nearly half the families of this district emigrated to America during the famine years. My ancestors at that time owned a farm at Ricetown and they done their best to keep the place but the Agent wanted it for another man. This man was called The Gombeen Man. He had a few pounds and he bought all the corn he could get and sold it to the hungry people at a hundred times more than he pad for it. He bribed the Agent for this farm at Ricetown. The Agent came(continues on next page)
