Famine Mass Graves at Abbeystrowry Skibbereen
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- The Famine mass graves at Abbeystrowry Graveyard in Skibbereen are one of the most poignant Famine sites in Ireland. The 'pits', as they were known contemporaneously, are the final resting place of up to 10,000 victims of Ireland's Great Hunger.
This short film gives the background of these mass graves and explains how they were used, with the infamous 'death cart' bringing the dead to the pits.
We also hear about the boy who was buried alive during the Great Famine who, thankfully, lived to tell the tale.
All images and text © Skibbereen Heritage Centre
Well done on the video.
More people should visit this site.
Rip to all. 💔 They are not forgotten
My great grandmother was one of the 7000 that died in the Vauxhall area of Liverpool when Liverpool was sealed off during the famine years of the 1840s, of their remains there is no trace, the irony is she was an Englishwoman married to an Irish dockworker, her father having moved from Gloucester to work in Liverpool, such tragedy for so many.
In 1846 the mortality rate for children in other cities in England was 32%, in Liverpool it was 49%, and specifically around the Vauxhall area it was 64%. In 1847 around 116,000 Irish refugees arrived in Vauxhall, 60,000 of them carried typhus and a further 30,000 were treated for dysentery, during this time two mass graves were established holding about 9500 victims between them, ten of them being priests that knowingly exposed themselves to these conditions and died as a result. Really tragic history of government mismanagement that isn't told enough, it's worth noting that following this the area elected T.P. O'Connor who served 50 years as MP for the Irish Parliamentary Party, the only time in history an Irish independence party has held a seat in England.
I hope to go and visit as soon as I will back in Erin again May they R.I.P. O Lord!
fabulous photos....thank you.
Thank you, a very respectful tribute.
Thank you Dot...
A very moving film
Thank you John...
Great video well done Terri.
Thanks Dom!
I visited the Abbey on a bright sunny day in May 2019. It’s hard to believe that such a beautiful and tranquil place could’ve seen such horror, but then, everything about An Gorta Mór beggars belief. Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a n-anamacha.
My 3x Great Grandmother, Lady Katherine M.E. Carson, is buried somewhere in this graveyard.
Bless her!!! I am so sorry. So sad.
Very good video
Thanks you Kieran...
The population has fewer people now than before the famine.
Are there any remains of homes/houses from the famine time? Where are they?
Lovley video however its impossible to read as the writing is not left up long enough otherwise ten out of ten well done to all involved.
Thanks Thoma, you can pause the video to read the transcriptions ...
I often ask myself why they allowed this to happen and also why Rome did nothing!
Ruled by Protestant England so couldnt do anything more than local priests could do.
@@johnwarwick-greer5931 more likely any decision was made by the British Government but any opportunity to blame this on the English is always appreciated by the Welsh, Scots and Anglo/Irish who were just as complicit.
Because the callous British Government preferred to sell food to the other nations caught in the famine that had swept Europe, the food basket of Ireland was emptied to do this at the cost of the lives of what was then a part of Britain, how they could do this to their own citizens I cannot answer. Donations were made from many, but of course if it was like it is today, did those donations get through to those intended or did they stop at the Governments pockets .The list of those making donations is fascinating one being 16 shillings from the convicts in a prison hulk anchored in Woolwich docks in London it is worth having a read. The mistake people have is just blaming it on the English, those to blame were British and included Irish landlords both Protestant and Catholic.
@@12shankley Those most to blame are decisionmaking members of the british governments. Also most landlords in Ireland.
Some tried to help, opened soup kitchens. Others evicted tenants and left them to starve. Others showed a landlord-type "charity" by paying for their tenants to emigrate in coffin ships. They wanted to clear off the humans from their land anyway to make room for grazing animals.
Just ten years or so before this atrocity the crown allowed catholic emancipation, we were never told what the Vatican offered in return. What we do know is that by then the Roman Catholic Church had begun to excommunicate Irish rebels. I believe that by this time the Vatican were in collusion with perfidious Albion.
RIP to all who lie there.
The bloody british were a great help werent they. The queen donated five pounds.
You need to understand that by then The Vatican was excommunicating those Irish rebels that dared to take a stand and fight against the crown.
She donated a thousand pounds. Nowhere near enough but posting falsehoods doesn't help the cause of truth