BEAUTIFUL KATE KEARNEY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1739, 19 December 1887, Page 3

BEAUTIFUL KATE KEARNEY

Mr D. P, Thompson, of Portland, now 0 m Iro'aad, reoently wrote to friends '- here, closing hla leUer with the following Bad pioturo there, June 22, 1887 :-— 4 "I saw a sight to-day that will Illosq trate the poverty of the people on the estate of Lord Konmare : A child of n. , poor family had died. The family were j bo poor that they could not pay the , ground rent m which to bury it. They ? then had to resort to burying it In a grave ? m which they had already burled four ; other members of thoir family. They , took up the fonr bodies and pnt the child on the bottom and placed the other four j on top In the Bime grave. The coffins were much decayed and m placing the ' last one m the grave it fell to pieces, and the bones were exposed. They were 1 placed beside the other coffins and the r grave filled np. * * * This is no j fiotlon for I saw It myaeff , and my wire, who wan with me, Bickened at the sight and turned away. I to-day sailed all over the lakes of Klllarney and bought ' pot ho en ' from a descendant of the baautlf nl • Kate Kearney,' In the Gap of Dunloo." Thai's what's the matter with poor Ireland. There la too muoh buying and selling cf " potheen " from the " desoondants of the beautiful Kate Kearney," , Stop that traffic and Ireland would again rejoice and Tara'a Hall would echo and ; re-eoho with the shouts of a disenthralled '. people,— • ' The PUindealer."