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What is recorded here

Detached multiple-bay two- and three-storey former workhouse, built 1841. Comprising of fifteen-bay two-storey central block, with paired three-bay three-storey gabled blocks flanking to north and south. Rubble limestone walls. Pitched slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods. The gable-fronted blocks have timber bargeboards and louvered lancet windows. Now in use as hospital.

Saint Joseph's Hospital serves as a reminder of the work of the Poor Law Unions in housing and caring for the destitute of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century. The workhouses were built throughout Ireland to similar plans but on different scales to designs by George Wilkinson following the passing of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act in 1838. Only the largest range survives.

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