What the records say
- When
- 1879
- Kind
- Famine
- Coordinates
- 53.78° N, 9.05° W
- Description
- 1879 famine in Ireland
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Second year of the Irish Famine (1878–1880) which has its greatest impact in the "wet" West of Ireland where the potato harvest is greatly reduced, and the…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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