School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh
- Location:
- Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Seanán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0535, Page 429
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- (continued from previous page)His name was Captain Mac Donald and he was buried in the old abbey and you can still see his grave up to this day.
- This story happened many years ago in Nenagh at the time of the Cholera in Ireland.
There was once a hospital in Nenagh where the Christian Brothers school now stands It happened that there was a terrible outbreak of "Cholera" meaning a disease and hundreds of people died from it every day and they had to be buried immediately without a coffin.
The doctors ordered a big grave to be dug in the old church yard in Barrack Street It happened that two sisters died at the same time in the hospital and they were buried in the big grave along with many others For years after one of the girls was seen walking around at the back of some old gardens in Pound St near the Christians Brothers school and some of the people who saw her are living still and they say she was doing her Purgatory - Collector
- Kathleen Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Sarsfield Street, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Mc Donald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Sarsfield Street, Co. Tipperary
