School: Sixmilebridge (C.)
- Location:
- Six-mile-bridge, Co. Clare
- Teacher: M. J. Walker
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0596, Page 459
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- A poor man and woman lived in New Market on Fergus during the main? time of the famine. Like all poor people they had nothing to eat, so they died from hunger, and his wife went to the Poor House in Ennis for a coffin for him. This was a distance of about six or seven miles, and she had to walk it and carry the coffin home herself.
As she was coming home near Clare Castle, she became so weak and hungry that she lay down beside the coffin on the roadside. Next day she was found dead in the same place as where she lay down. Another coffin was got and they were both buried together in Carrig Gorne church yard.
