KK-BRST-024

Record Date: 
6 May 2012
Graveyard: 
St. Brendan's
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Temporary grave marker

Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Latitude: 
52.535186388889
Longitude: 
-7.2259833333333
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Famine burial
Notes: 

In memory of Ennisnag Famine victims discovered in 1925. Interred here in 1943.
Notes Ennisnag was one of the locations of the soup Kitchens

In 1925 at the rear of Sheridans Ennisnag Stores, workmen digging out sand came upon the bodies of two people.

The late Doctor T G O’ Brien of Rockview Ennisnag examined them and declared them to be the remains of a male and female The age of which suggested to him that these were the bodies of victims of the Famine of 1847.

The bodies were placed in a wooden box which was subsequently held in a storeroom at Ennisnag Stores where they remained from 1925 until 1943. The police investigation concurred with the findings of Dr O ‘Brien and gave permission for to proceed with the burial of these two people. Felix Sheridan Sen., was Manager of Potters Store and John (Jack) Dunne Sen. of Ennisnag took care of the internment.
Ennisnag Stores was the location of a soup kitchen in the Famine of 1847.