This moving image, exquisitely drawn,  shows the local vicar sharing the final hours  of a dying man  in a hovel at Scull, Co Cork. The sketch was made by James Mahony who wrote that in order to make the drawing he had to stand 'up to his ankles in the flith upon the floor' The hut was less than 10 feet square. There were three children. Mahony further wrote that the poor man had buried his wife five days previously. 'Mullins died and three days later so did the vicar'. ( ILN February 20 1847)
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