What is recorded here
Workhouse in Manorhamilton stands above the town with its chimney breasts sticking out like elbows claiming both armrests. You’d hate to sit beside it on the bus; by Dromahair you’d be in the aisle.
Detached seven-bay two-storey former workhouse, built in 1842 to a design by James Caldwell, with modern porch and two-storey extension to rear. Now used as a hospital building. Pitched tiled roof. Squared random coursed limestone walls with plinth course and cut stone quoins. Slightly-projecting chimney breasts expressed in gable walls. Four-bay pebbledashed porch with smooth rendered plinth and lean-to artificial slate roof. Replacement timber windows with stone sills in cut stone flat-arched openings and glazed timber door. Outbuildings to north-east.
This former workhouse building, designed by James Caldwell, is an imposing structure, prominently positioned on a hilltop site and looking down over the town. It is a reminder of mid-nineteenth-century history, when workhouses provided shelter and sustenance to impoverished people. Notable features include the raised gable ends with chimney breasts. Through its association with Our Lady's Hospital it continues to play an important social function within the town.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30805030
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