This minority of the family inhabited the great new house on Main Street.
Jeremiah went every Sunday afternoon by himself to kneel in the presence of the majority, there where they lay in Saint Agnes' consecrated ground.

If the weather was good, he generally extended his walk through the fields to an old deserted Catholic burial-field, which had been used only in the first years after the famine invasion, and now was clean forgotten.

The old wagon-maker liked to look over the primitive, neglected stones which marked the graves of these earlier exiles.

Fully half of the inscriptions mentioned his County Galway--there were two naming the very parish adjoining his.

The latest date on any stone was of the remoter 'fifties.