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Workhouse Burial Grounds in Malone Lower

Workhouse Burial Grounds

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Malone Lower holds workhouse burial grounds from the nineteenth century, marking the place where poor law systems disposed of human bodies. The site belongs to County Antrim and preserves the brutal arithmetic of institutions that claimed lives then buried them without witness. Whatever names were erased, the ground still carries the weight of hands that raked soil over strangers.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Workhouse Burial Grounds. Recorded period: C19TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
19th-century burial grounds; associated with the workhouse system, reflecting social and historical conditions during the Victorian era in Northern Ireland.

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