Detail Ennistymon Great Hunger Memorial - Clare Ireland

Gentlemen, there is a little boy named Michael Rice of Lahinch aged about four 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.”

One side of the Ennistymon Great Hunger Memorial shows the profile of a little boy, the other the mother's hands clenched in frustration and anger.
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