What is recorded here

Workhouse Burial Gd. is a 19th-century burial ground in County Clare, Ireland, measuring 162m NNW-SSE by 70m WSW-ENE. It appeared on the 1916 OS 6-inch map and entered the Register of Historic Monuments on 15 January 2002. People buried there likely suffered hunger, illness or despair before death. The ground still holds what the workhouse tried to erase.

A 19th-century burial ground (162m NNW-SSE by 70m WSW-ENE) named ‘Workhouse Burial Gd.’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. This monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments and appeared in Iris Oifigiúil on 15 January 2002. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 July 2016

19th-century workhouse burial ground; significant as a record of social history and public health in Ireland during the famine and post-famine periods.

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