School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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- My grandfather told the following story to my father who in turn told it to me. "In the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in the month of April, there was a dreadful outbreak of Cholera in Ireland. It did not break out in Sligo until the eighteenth of August of the same year. The account given shortly after its outbreak was; twenty-two, (deathes) deaths, no recovery. On an average fifty persons a day died but often as many as a hundred died in a particular day. Twenty carpenters were busily employed making coffins in the courthouse, at that time converted into a workshop. The twenty carpenters soon growing unable to supply the demand for coffins, most of the dead were rolled into pitched(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid A. Tighe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo