School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- An Carn, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 16_042
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- The famine was in 1847 and 1848. The time of the famine everyone was dying with the hunger. The stalks of the potatoes were all burned with the blight. The people got a couple of stone of meal every week during the famine from the union. They got potatoes from the union in Scotland for the next year. It is said that there was a man buried in Carron with a shamrock in his stomach the time of the famine. The people were dying in the side of the road. There was never a famine in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Ní Conmara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Choirne, Co. an Chláir
