Dear Editor,
The skeletons’ remains discovered on the site of MacDonagh Junction interred during the Great Famine of 1845 - 1850 still continue to remain in the old workhouse in Callan, Co Kilkenny.
Up to 900 people were buried in 1844 at this site. The workhouse minute books were reported ‘missing’ when the original plans for MacDonagh Junction Shopping Centre was carried out. However, eventually the excavation director discovered some in archives in Kilkenny Court House long after work was in progress at this site.
The establishment of a memorial garden was promised in 2008 and I understood all skeletons would be returned to their burial ground but to date nothing has been done. Shame on all of us to allow this to happen.
Yours sincerely,
Anne Ryan
High St, Kilkenny
