About 96 years ago there was a great famine in Ireland. The potatoes and all the crops rotted. The people were starving and dying with the hunger.
INFORMANT: Mr Ruane, Age 48, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
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Potatoes are the most common crop the farmers grow round this district in the village of Tavanaghmore, Parish of Straide in the Barony of Gallen.
INFORMANT: Mrs Ruane, Age 50, Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
There is a fair held in the parish of Straid four times a year, on the last day of May....
INFORMANT: James McIntyre, Age 60, Address, Knocksaxon, Co. Mayo
My father sets potatoes at home now. First of all he ploughs the land and harrows it.
John Kennedy, Address, Prison, Balla, Co. Mayo
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The robin stays in Ireland and does not migrate. She builds her nest in a bunch of briars. She lays five eggs.
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The Eppicures are very early potatoes. They are sewn on drills in this district. In the Spring time the men plough the land.
INFORMANT: Mrs Corcoran, Age 32, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo
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