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During the Irish Rebellion in the seventeenth century many of the rebels refused to bury the corpses of their murdered victims. This resulted in a pestilential fever which occurred in many places.
A few examples of the estimated deaths are ...
6,000 in Coleraine in four months
2,000 in Carrickfergus
2,500 in Belfast
2000+ in Malone
Similar numbers died in other places.
Source: History of the Irish Church ...
Chapter VIII ... from the Irish Rebellion to the Death of Charles I (http://www.libraryireland.com/ScotchIrishSeeds/VIII.php)
From "Scotch and Irish Seeds in American Soil" by Rev. J. G. Craighead
1840s - Fever Epidemic in Ireland - Link (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,289462.msg1723575.html#msg1723575)
Typhus epidemics occurred in the following years ....
1816-19
1826-27
1836-37
1846-49
Localised epidemics occurred in 1879-80 and 1898.