murtaghs

Updated: February 28, 2026

"He is up at the Murtaghs," said his sister, "an' I had better fetch him home; I think the poor fellow's almost out of his senses since Peggy Murtagh's death that an' the dregs of the fever has him that he doesn't know what he's doin', God help him."

William Carleton - The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three