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Former union workhouse graveyard on rectangular-plan, in use c. 1845 – 51 and into twentieth century, containing unmarked graves of victims of the Great Famine. Originally associated with Stranorlar Union Workhouse, demolished sometime during the mid-twentieth century. Now out of use. Uncoursed rubble stone boundary walls with rubble stone coping over, modern repairs in places (c. 1996) and east wall now collapsed. Gates replaced to centre of north and south sections of boundary walls , c. 1996. Square-headed door opening to south wall having red brick voussoirs, and with battened timber framed with horizontal wrought-iron bands. Cut stone memorial plaque (undated) to site reading ‘In Charity Pray for the Soul of Owen Laughlin, Late of Drumfries, Erected by his Sister Jane’. Modern polished stone plaque, erected 1996, reading ‘memory of the victims of famine and all those buried in this graveyard. Erected by Ballybofey and Stranorlar Golf Club 9-12-1996.’ Set back from road to the rear (north) of the site of Stranorlar Union Workhouse and to the north of modern hospital complex, golf course adjacent to site. Site accessed from road by pathway from the south.
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