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Workhouse Burial Grounds in Rathbrady More

Workhouse Burial Grounds

What is recorded here

Rathbrady More holds workhouse burial grounds from the nineteenth century, marking the final destination of people the system consumed. The official record offers no names, no dates of death, no cause, only the shape of a site and the label workhouse. That absence is the story. These are the people the workhouse took and the ground kept.
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 period.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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