Scoil: Borris (C.)
- Suíomh:
- An Bhuiríos, Co. Cheatharlach
- Múinteoir: Bean Uí Loinneáin
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0904, Leathanach 459
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- XML Scoil: Borris (C.)
- XML Leathanach 459
- XML “Famine Times”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)and drifted to the towns where there was a chance of getting something to eat.
In a neighbouring district, at the other side of the Barrow, people died in such numbers that they were not coffined at all - they were collected by "Body-Lifters" paid a few shillings for every corpse and buried together in trenches. One of these "Body-Lifters" was over zealous: one day he entered a house where a man was prostrate with famine fever; he hoisted the invalid on to his shoulder & was rushing out to the death cart, when in a weak voice the poor invalid said "I'm not dead".
The Body-Lifter's answer was "Damn you: Do you know better than the doctor?" - he would have thrown the poor creature among the corpses only that a neighbour heard the remark.
- Bailitheoir
- Eileen Neill
- Inscne
- Baineann
- Seoladh
- An Bhuiríos, Co. Cheatharlach
