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Former union workhouse graveyard on rectangular-plan, in use c. 1845 - 51, containing unmarked graves of victims of the Great Famine. Now out of use. Surrounded enclosed by whitewashed rubble stone boundary walls wall with upright rubble stones to coping. Garden to enclosure. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of roughcast rendered rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having pyramidal coping over surmounted by painted cross finial, and with modern gate. Signage to east pier reads ‘IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED OF HUNGER’. Located on to the north-east of the site of Inishowen Union Workhouse complex (built 1843, demolished 1958), and to the east of the former workhouse infirmary (see 40805006). Located adjacent to road to the south-west of the centre of Carndonagh. Modern commemorative stone to the south-west.
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