School: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Flannan
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- (continued from previous page)Despite the fact that many got food in this way yet thousands died of starvation and buried in pits. Tradition has it that all round the ruins of the old fever hospital in Scurragh and around the old workhouse human bones have been dug up several times.The above account was got from John Kennedy, Clonoughill, Birr.
- Informant
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonoghil Upper, Co. Offaly