I have just come across extracts from the above paper, basically I have got it because it reports the inquest of my gg uncle having been shot by the Excise Police on the 8th February 1849 and where the Officer in charge Martin Culleman and officer Peter Cornlan were committed to Gaol by the Coroner G. Armstrong, for killing with no sufficient reason. However, what might interest some listers is the Report on the Poor Law Unions at that date and the unbelievable poverty that existed at that time. For anyone who knows the area and the small size of places like Rosslea and Aughdrumsee it will be absolutely horrifying. CLONES UNION In the house last Board Day 15th February 1849 1350 Since admitted 24 Born 0 Total 1384 Discharged 61 Died 9 Remaining 1314 Clones 226 St Tierney 80 Newbliss 90 Currin 210 Drumully 131 Newtownbutler 183 Aughdrumsee 69 Rosslea 121 Union at large 200 Average cost for a pauper per week 1s.1/2d Castleblaney had 1509 inclucing one new born baby 203 in sick & lunatic asylum and 29 in fever hospital. Cootehill had on 10th February 2514 since admitted 90 Born 1 Total 2606 Discharged 79 Died 126 Remaining 2401 It gives me the shivers thinking that 126 people died in the space of one week and that there were such a huge number of people from a relatively small place like Cootehill reduced to such a state by the wretched famine. There is also a report of 14 cases of cholera arising in the previous week quote..'.The Board of Guardians have agreed to supply those attacked with physic and coffins, but they could not agree to furnish the patients with what they equally require, a little nutrient, during their battle for life. The principal food of the suffering class is turnips and in the cases under treatment they have nothing but cold water or maybe a little buttermilk. Physic is a good thing it its way but it will not in itself cure a patient . As yet there has been no hospital accommodation procurred.' The disease has as yet been confined to the most wretched part of the population who live in miserable hovels at a place called Pound Hill. Reading these articles has certainly brought home to me that the land of my birth went through some horrenduous times the great divide there was between the 'have' and havenots' . Maureen