BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, May 15, 1850 A Woodford correspondent states that awful deaths by starvation occurred on the 21st of April. The Widow M'Namara and her son, a boy of 15 years of age, both died of hunger, and having no friends to bury them, they were left for nine days in a miserable hut where they lived. They were paupers, and some people demanded a coffin for the relieving officer, which he refused, and in consequence they had to bury them in their old garments on the top of a hill, in the wild mountains of Derrigoolan, in the Portumna union, where there is a place marked out for burying such people as can get no coffins, and where members lie interred that died of destitution.--Limerick Reporter. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/