School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin

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- (continued from previous page)died with it. A big hole was made and a cart was brought round and all the dead bodies were put on it and they were all thrown down in it and it was filled in again. The district was thickly populated before the famine but the most of the people died through hunger and cold.
- 2. None of the people locally have stories of the Great Famine in 1846 and 1847. The people (locally)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Tivenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornaglia, Co. Roscommon