School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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- During the years 1846 - 47 a great famine was raging through out the country. It affected the district in some ways. There was a population of about eight and a half million in Ireland at that time. During the famine time there was a plague in Ireland. Half of the people died from it The potato crop failed. When the people brought the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. Meath