How were dead bodies handled in the Irish potato famine?

Answer 1

They were more than likely buried in mass graves. I was recently in a town in County Kerry called Bonane, a couple of miles outside this village, on a small mounatin road leading to a place known as "the priests leap, there was an old grave yard with a famine grave in it. it wasn't unmarked like a paupers grave, but there were no inscriptions.

A local told me it contained remains of many of the dead from the village during the outrage. Although Kerry was not as badly affected by the famine as other counties, like Mayo for example