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

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Hundreds of thousands of people, locally, died in the famine year. They sold all they had and bought their passage to America. - 4. The Famine year was in 1846-47. Some of the old people or the most of them have stories about the Famine. All round this part of the country, it had much effect on the people and crop. People who were not able to keep themselves in their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Tivenan
- Gender
- Male