What is recorded here

Under the grass of Magherafelt town parks, workhouse burial grounds hold people the ledger never named. The nineteenth century dropped its poorest into that soil, then the town laid gardens above them and forgot. When children chase balls across those greens, they run past the dead who had nowhere else to go.

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.

C19th workhouse burial grounds; associated with the Poor Law system and reflecting social history and public health conditions in 19th-century Ireland.

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