School: Carragh (roll number 12527)
- Location:
- Na Cathracha Thiar, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cnáimhsighe
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- Famine Times.
All the old people have a great many stories about the great famine. The famine effected this district very much because before the famine this district was very thickly populated. People now point out places where people lived long ago and there is nothing to be seen but the ruins of their houses. People were going to a fair in Loughglynn and when they were coming home from the fair there rose a great fog and the stalks were burned. When the people came home they look at their own stalks and they were all burned. This was first time that blight was ever seen in Ireland.
The potatoes failed in the ridges and when the people went to dig their potatoes they were very small. Some of the people did not dig them at all and more did. The people peeled the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Glynn
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Glynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cluain Sionnach, Co. Ros Comáin
