Monument to An Gorta Mor, the Great Famine, on the road between Ennistymon to Lahinch, County Clare, close to the former Workhouse
A very very sad little stop on our way to the Cliffs of Moher, this monument to the Potato Famine reads...
Gentleman
There is a little boy named Michael Rice of Lahinch aged about 4 years he is an orphan, his father having died last year and his mother has expired on last Wednesday night, who is now about being buried without a coffin!! unless ye make some provision for such. The child in question is now at the workhouse gate expecting to be admitted if not he will starve.
Robs S. Constable
Such an atmospheric capture. It -is- a sad story, but at the same time, at least there was someone who cared enough to remember the boy and his family afterwards.
