School: Mín a Ghabhann (Meenagowan) (roll number 16823)
- Location:
- Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Glacáin
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- There was a great famine here in 1847. It started on the fourth of June. The blight came on the potatoes and them growing. It was too late to plant any more that year. The potatoes were the most thing that the people had to depend on.
- Collector
- Domhnaill Ó Toláin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Maigh Dabhcha, Co. Dhún na nGall