managharrow

Updated: June 26, 2025

Poor progress indeed, inasmuch as there were FORTY dead bodies in the district of Managharrow alone, awaiting him! One of the cases, that of Owen Mulrooney, was a moving one. He was a young, muscular man, in the prime of life. He had a wife and five young children. Here is the substance of his wife's depositions at the inquest held upon his remains.

John O'Rourke - The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) : With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines