Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0247
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- "There were three deep pits sunk outside the work-house - One on the womens' side beside the piggery _ One on the west side of the Workhouse and the third pit, close to the Mortuary or Dead-house.
The Work-house was overcrowded, packed like herrings in a barrel with victims of Cholera _ When a victim died the remains were lowered into one of the pits and covered with Quick-lime. The pits became filled with corpses.
The walls and wood work of the windows from which those sliding doors were attached were thickly covered on the outside with a thick coating of black(continues on next page)