Teampaillin Ban Famine Graveyard

This graveyard, whose name literally means "little white churchyard", lies about a quarter of a mile outside Listowel on the road to Ballybunion. This is our local reminder of the terrible years of 1845-'47 when famine ravaged the countryside and many thousands of the bodies of starved and diseased Irishmen were buried in mass graves, without benefit of shroud or coffin.