What is recorded here
Down Acre held workhouse burial grounds during the nineteenth century, marking a brutal age when poverty became a death sentence. The earth there belongs to people the state discarded, their names erased but their hunger made flesh. To walk beside that acre is to admit the system fed on human life and buries the receipt.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Workhouse Burial Grounds. Recorded period: C19TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
A 19th-century burial ground associated with a workhouse; significant as a reflection of social and welfare history in the region.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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