Gerard McCarthy, who produced a small exhibition in 2017 in Dublin to mark the 150th anniversary of the famine year 1847, obtained a Kinsale Union Workhouse Register from a two-day period in 1847 ...

A photograph of the skeletal remains of a three-year-old child, taking during the archaeological excavation at the Kilkenny Union Workhouse in May 2006. Source: Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd. The Poor ...

A 35-year-old author, George Fitzgibbon Lysaght entered the North Dublin Union Workhouse in 1853. Before falling on hard times, George was a wealthy landowner in County Clare. The property was ...

The annual patron at the Paupers' Graveyard, Coolcotts, Wexford will take place on Friday, June 6 at 7.30 p.m. The patron honours the memory of the Wexford men, women and children buried in the ...

The population of Macroom Union shrank from 58,818 in 1841 to 21,418 in 1911, a drop of 63.5 per cent. More than 4,000 people were resident in Macroom Workhouse and its two Auxiliary Workhouses in ...

It was the poorhouse records of Depwade Union Workhouse in Norfolk, England, however, that led me directly to the ancestral village of the Weatherlow family. Surfing the Internet, I found the ...

“And the Union workhouses,” demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" “Both very busy, sir…” “Those who are badly off must go there.” “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.” “If they ...

THE poor law union act was introduced to Ireland in 1838 and each union had its own workhouse, which was built for the relief of the distressed. The Droghe... Monday, 2 June 2025 ...

Take a look at the condo conversion of a workhouse near where a young Charles Dickens lived. The Strand Union Workhouse, which inspired “Oliver Twist,” was built in the 1770s.Credit ...

The 3,649 sq ft home based in Great Snoring was built 200 years ago and once accommodated 250 people as the Walsingham Union workhouse. But from 1930 the remaining 30 inmates were transferred from ...

In the shadow of the BT Tower, the Cleveland Street Workhouse (also known as the Strand Union Workhouse) is not only one of the earliest surviving workhouses in London, it's also a stone’s throw ...

A historic tapestry illustrating the history of Northallerton's Friarage Hospital has been restored and cleaned, funded by ...