Newry Examiner & Louth
Advertiser 11 February 1863
A Worthy Example
Colonel Beresford, of Woodhouse, Stradbally, has
during the last week, sent for four families who went recently to the poorhouse
at Kilmacthomas, and employed them to ‘hew wood’ from his estate, to be given
gratis to them and their fellow sufferers. The Gallant Colonel has also been
giving food of all description to the poor in his vicinity, without distinction
of any sect.
It is to be hoped the good example thus given will be
followed up by other landlords, as it will not only relieve ‘the poor and
needy’, but save our poorhouses from paupers and our jails from culprits.