School: Garracloon (roll number 6852)
- Location:
- Garrycloonagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: James J. Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)poor and one year they had no money to pay the rent. So they were evicted by the Landlord, Lord Arran. There are none of these in the district now because they all died.
- CarnasockThere were three houses in a place called Carnasock on my father's holding in Knockfree.
Three families lived there and they lived in the time of the famine. They were very poor and the most of them emigrated to America and the rest of them died with starvation. Two of the houses were made of stone and the third one was a sod house. The ruins of the houses are not to be seen now because my grandfather made walls with all the stones and the walls are still to be seen.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Thomas Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockfree, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Holan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Deelcastle, Co. Mayo
