Thursday 20 October 2011

Famine graveyard found in Kilkenny

The results of a graveyard excavation, at a site containing nine hundred and seventy victims who died in Kilkenny workhouse during the Irish Famine of the 1840s, have been revealed. The full story is at www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2011/1020/1224306123786.html

(With thanks to FindmyPast Ireland via Twitter)

Chris

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