School: Raharney (B.)

Location:
Raharney, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
S. Ó Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 087

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 087

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  1. In the year of the famine there were four houses in Pudden Row Raharney
    there are none of them standing now. In one house there lived ten young fellows and when the Relief work came they were sent for to come to work at the river but they were all found dead with hunger and disease.

    Told by
    Mrs John Flynn
    Pudden Row
    Raharney
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.