 About the years 1652 and 1653," says Colonel Lawrence, in his Interests of Ireland, " the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, or beast, or bird,...  History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798, &c: Containing an ... - Page 345by James Gordon - 1803 - 453 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Nicholas Murphy - Ireland - 1870 - 548 pages
...(writes Colonel Lawrence, an eye witness), the plague and famine had so swept away whole countries that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, beast, or bird, they being all dead, or had quitted these desolate places. Our soldiers... | |
 | Thomas Nicolas Burke - British - 1873 - 252 pages
...the years 1652 and '53, the plague and famine had swept away the inhabitants of whole counties, so that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature — man, beast, or bird ; they were all dead, or had quit these desolate places. The troopers would... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - 840 pages
...over the unhappy land. According to an eye-witness, whole counties were cleared of their inhabitants. A man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, beast, or bird : where survivors were found, they were either old men and women, or children.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1877 - 626 pages
...the informer. "About the years 1652 and 1653," says Colonel Lawrence, in his Interests of Ireland, " the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties,...twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, or beast, or bird, — they being all dead, or had quitted those desolate places. Our soldiers... | |
 | 1878 - 608 pages
...eye-witness, writes that so terrible had been the effects of war, famine, and pestilence during 1652-3 "that "a man' might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, beast, or bird, they being either all dead or had to quit those desolate places." The great... | |
 | Terence O'Rorke - Ballysadare (Ireland : Parish) - 1878 - 572 pages
...1653," writes the learned Mr. Prendergast, "the plague and famine had swept away whole counties, so that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature. Man, heast, and bird, were all dead, or had quit these desolate places." f According to the official... | |
 | Myles O'Reilly - Martyrs - 1878 - 800 pages
...the years 1652 and 1653, the plague and famine had swept away the inhabitants of whole counties, so that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles, and not see a living creature : man, beast or bird, — they were all dead, or had quit these desolate places. The troopers would... | |
 | William Gleeson - Anti-Catholicism - 1880 - 596 pages
...the country was reduced in consequence, is thus described by Lawrence: "About the year 1652 and 1653, the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties,...twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, beast or bird, they being either all dead, or had quit the desolate places. Our soldiers... | |
 | Thomas Dunbar Ingram - Ireland - 1888 - 172 pages
...the first : — " About the years 1652 and 1653 the plague and famine had swept away whole countries, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, beast, or bird, they being either all dead or had quit those desolate places, that our... | |
 | John O'Hart - Ireland - 1892 - 954 pages
...preyed upon by wolves. In the years 1652 and 1653, the plague and famine had swept away whole countries, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature. Man, beast, and bird, were all dead, or had quit those desolate places." At that gloomy period in Irish... | |
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