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Former union workhouse graveyard on sub rectangular-plan, in use c. 1845-1955, containing unmarked graves of victims of the Great Famine (1845-51), workhouse deaths from c. 1852- 1921 and later internments associated with St. Patrick's District Hospital from c. 1923-55. Now out of use with . Field stone boundary walls to site with rubble stone coping. Modern carved limestone Celtic high cross-type memorial to site (1997) having canted plinth with shaft and cross head over with Celtic interlacing motifs. Inscription in old Gaelic script to base. Cross set in modern rubble stone enclosure. Located in sloping site to the north of the site of Glenties Union Workhouse (demolished) and St. Columba’s Comprehensive School, and to the north-west of the centre of Glenties.
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