What is recorded here
Widow's Cottages is a memorial in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Perhaps the Clifden family built these cottages around 1860 so indigent widows could grow potatoes in the rear patches. Maybe the soil still remembers the weight of hands that dug it for survival.
c.1860. Purpose built cottages with potato patches to the rear. The Clifden family built these cottages for indigent widows.
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Photo: A.-K. D. · CC BY-SA 4.0