School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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- (continued from previous page)them catch them. Then the bailifs went away without cattle or money.
- When the famine came to Ireland the people were very badly prepared for it and so a great many of them died. The famine lasted from (1845) to (1848).When the famine came the potatoes blackened and all the other crops rotted and the people were so hungary that they ate cats dogs and the grass.The people found it very(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamon Mac Conmara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meggagh West, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Namara
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meggagh West, Co. Clare