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www.mayo-ireland.ie/Mayo/History/Famine.htm
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County Mayo was one of the counties to suffer most and in commemoration the following article was included in a report from Mayo County Council. The first reports of blight appeared in September 1845. For one third of the country's population, the potato was the sole article of diet. In County Mayo it was estimated that nine tenths of the population depended on it.
