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Workhouse Burial Grounds in Townhill

Workhouse Burial Grounds

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Under Townhill, County Fermanagh, forgotten bodies from the nineteenth-century workhouse still wait beneath the soil. Starvation and brutality filled those institutions, yet the dead received no marker, no name, no ceremony. The living discarded them as easily as broken tools. That refusal to witness suffering is the true horror, not the bones themselves.
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 burial ground associated with a workhouse; reflects social and historical conditions during the Victorian era. Its significance lies in its connection to poverty, public welfare, and burial practices in 19th-century Ireland.

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