Workhouse Tour
Current location: Workhouse graveyard |
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Death in the workhouse often meant burial in an unmarked pauper's grave. In the 1840s, epidemics of cholera, typhus and smallpox, and in Ireland the Great Famine of 1845-50, led to the use of mass open graves.
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